1 Corinthians 8
1 Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
To speake of thinges dedicate vnto ydols we are sure that we all have knowledge. knowledge maketh a man swell: bnt love edifieth.
2 If any man presumes to know anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
If eny man thinke that he knoweth eny thinge he knoweth nothynge yet as he ought to knowe.
3 But if any man loves God, this man is known by him.
But yf eny man love god the same is knowen of him.
4 Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.
To speake of meate dedicat vnto ydols we are sure that ther is none ydoll in the worlde and that ther is none other god but one.
5 For also since there are things called gods, whether in heaven or on the earth, as there are many gods and many lords,
And though ther be yt are called goddes whether in heven other in erth (as ther be goddes many and lordes many)
6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.
yet vnto vs is there but one god which is the father of whom are all thinges and we in him: and one lorde Iesus Christ by whom are all thinges and we by him.
7 Nevertheless the knowledge is not in all men, but some, with conscience of the idol until now, eat as sacrificed to idols, and their weak conscience is defiled.
But every man hath not knowledge. For some suppose that ther is an ydoll vntyll this houre and eate as of a thinge offered vnto ye ydole and so their consciences beynge yet weake are defyled.
8 But food does not present us to God, for neither if we eat are we ahead, nor if we do not eat are we behind.
Meate maketh vs not acceptable to god. Nether yf we eate are we ye better. Nether yf we eate not are we the worsse.
9 But take heed lest somehow this privilege of yours becomes a stumbling-block to those who are weak.
But take hede that youre libertie cause not ye weake to faule.
10 For if some man sees thee, who has knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
For yf some man se ye which hast knowledge sit at meate in the ydoles teple shall not the conscience of hym which is weake be boldened to eate those thinges which are offered vnto ye ydole?
11 And by thy knowledge the brother, being weak, will be ruined, for whom Christ died.
And so thorow thy knowledge shall ye weake brother perisshe for whom christ dyed.
12 And sinning this way against the brothers, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
Whe ye synne so agaynst the brethren and wounde their weake consciences ye synne agaynst Christ.
