1 Corinthians 8
1 But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
De iis autem quæ idolis sacrificantur, scimus quia omnes scientiam habemus. Scientia inflat, caritas vero ædificat.
2 If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].
Si quis autem se existimat scire aliquid, nondum cognovit quemadmodum oporteat eum scire.
3 But if any one love God, he is known of him):
Si quis autem diligit Deum, hic cognitus est ab eo.
4 — concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no other God save one.
De escis autem quæ idolis immolantur, scimus quia nihil est idolum in mundo, et quod nullus est Deus, nisi unus.
5 For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many, )
Nam etsi sunt qui dicantur dii sive in cælo, sive in terra (siquidem sunt dii multi, et domini multi):
6 yet to us [there is] one God, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him.
nobis tamen unus est Deus, Pater, ex quo omnia, et nos in illum: et unus Dominus Jesus Christus, per quem omnia, et nos per ipsum.
7 But knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
Sed non in omnibus est scientia. Quidam autem cum conscientia usque nunc idoli, quasi idolothytum manducant: et conscientia ipsorum cum sit infirma, polluitur.
8 But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.
Esca autem nos non commendat Deo. Neque enim si manducaverimus, abundabimus: neque si non manducaverimus, deficiemus.
9 But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.
Videte autem ne forte hæc licentia vestra offendiculum fiat infirmis.
10 For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?
Si enim quis viderit eum, qui habet scientiam, in idolio recumbentem: nonne conscientia ejus, cum sit infirma, ædificabitur ad manducandum idolothyta?
11 and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.
Et peribit infirmus in tua scientia, frater, propter quem Christus mortuus est?
12 Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
Sic autem peccantes in fratres, et percutientes conscientiam eorum infirmam, in Christum peccatis.
