1 Corinthians 8
1 With reference to food that has been offered in sacrifice to idols – We are aware that all of us have knowledge! Knowledge breeds conceit, while love builds up character.
U pogledu mesa žrtvovana idolima, znamo, svi posjedujemo znanje. Ali znanje nadima, a ljubav izgrađuje.
2 If someone thinks that they know anything, they have not yet reached that knowledge which they ought to have reached.
Ako tko misli da što zna, još ne zna kako treba znati.
3 On the other hand, if a person loves God, they are known by God.
A ljubi li tko Boga, Bog ga poznaje.
4 With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols – we are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
Dakle, u pogledu blagovanja mesa žrtvovana idolima, znamo: nema idola na svijetu i nema Boga do Jednoga.
5 Even supposing that there are so-called “gods” either in heaven or on earth – and there are many such “gods” and “lords” –
Jer sve kad bi i bilo nazovibogova ili na nebu ili na zemlji - kao što ima mnogo “bogova” i mnogo “gospodara”! -
6 Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things come (and for him we live), and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come (and through him we live).
nama je jedan Bog, Otac, od koga je sve, a mi za njega; i jedan Gospodin, Isus Krist, po kome je sve, i mi po njemu.
7 Still, it is not everyone that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.
Ali nemaju svi toga znanja. Neki, navikli na idole, još jedu meso kao idolima žrtvovano i njihova se savjest kalja jer je nejaka.
8 What we eat, however, will not bring us nearer to God. We lose nothing by not eating this food, and we gain nothing by eating it.
A k Bogu nas ne privodi jelo. Niti što gubimo ako ne jedemo; niti što dobivamo ako jedemo.
9 But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.
A pazite da ne bi možda ta vaša sloboda bila spoticaj nejakima.
10 For if someone should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol’s temple, will not their conscience, if they are weak, become so hardened that they, too, will eat food offered to idols?
Jer vidi li tko tebe koji imaš znanje za stolom u hramu idolskomu, neće li se njegova savjest, jer je nejaka, “izgraditi” da jede žrtvovano idolima?
11 And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak person is ruined – someone for whose sake Christ died!
I s tvoga znanja propada nejaki, brat za kojega je Krist umro.
12 In this way, by sinning against your fellow followers of the Lord and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ.
Tako griješeći protiv braće i ranjavajući njihovu nejaku savjest, protiv Krista griješite.
