1 Corinthians 8
1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Περὶ δὲ τῶν εἰδωλοθύτων, οἴδαμεν ὅτι πάντες γνῶσιν ἔχομεν. Ἡ γνῶσις φυσιοῖ, ἡ δὲ ἀγάπη οἰκοδομεῖ.
2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
Εἴ τις δοκεῖ ἐγνωκέναι τι, οὔπω ἔγνω καθὼς δεῖ γνῶναι.
3 But anyone who loves God is known by him.
Εἰ δέ τις ἀγαπᾷ τὸν ˚Θεόν, οὗτος ἔγνωσται ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ.
4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
Περὶ τῆς βρώσεως οὖν τῶν εἰδωλοθύτων, οἴδαμεν ὅτι οὐδὲν εἴδωλον ἐν κόσμῳ, καὶ ὅτι οὐδεὶς ˚Θεὸς εἰ μὴ εἷς.
5 For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
Καὶ γὰρ εἴπερ εἰσὶν λεγόμενοι θεοὶ, εἴτε ἐν οὐρανῷ εἴτε ἐπὶ γῆς, ὥσπερ εἰσὶν θεοὶ πολλοὶ καὶ κύριοι πολλοί,
6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
ἀλλʼ ἡμῖν εἷς ˚Θεὸς ὁ Πατήρ, ἐξ οὗ τὰ πάντα, καὶ ἡμεῖς εἰς αὐτόν, καὶ εἷς ˚Κύριος, ˚Ἰησοῦς ˚Χριστός, διʼ οὗ τὰ πάντα, καὶ ἡμεῖς διʼ αὐτοῦ.
7 However, that knowledge is not in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
Ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐν πᾶσιν ἡ γνῶσις· τινὲς δὲ τῇ συνηθείᾳ ἕως ἄρτι τοῦ εἰδώλου, ὡς εἰδωλόθυτον ἐσθίουσιν, καὶ ἡ συνείδησις αὐτῶν ἀσθενὴς οὖσα, μολύνεται.
8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we do not eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.
Βρῶμα δὲ ἡμᾶς οὐ παραστήσει τῷ ˚Θεῷ· οὔτε ἐὰν μὴ φάγωμεν, περισσεύομεν, οὔτε ἐὰν φάγωμεν, ὑστερούμεθα.
9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
Βλέπετε δὲ μή πως ἡ ἐξουσία ὑμῶν αὕτη, πρόσκομμα γένηται τοῖς ἀσθενέσιν.
10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
Ἐὰν γάρ τις ἴδῃ σε τὸν ἔχοντα γνῶσιν ἐν εἰδωλείῳ κατακείμενον, οὐχὶ ἡ συνείδησις αὐτοῦ ἀσθενοῦς ὄντος, οἰκοδομηθήσεται, εἰς τὸ τὰ εἰδωλόθυτα ἐσθίειν;
11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
Ἀπόλλυται γὰρ ὁ ἀσθενῶν ἐν τῇ σῇ γνώσει, ὁ ἀδελφὸς, διʼ ὃν ˚Χριστὸς ἀπέθανεν.
12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
Οὕτως δὲ ἁμαρτάνοντες εἰς τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς, καὶ τύπτοντες αὐτῶν τὴν συνείδησιν ἀσθενοῦσαν, εἰς ˚Χριστὸν ἁμαρτάνετε.
