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.
MA na mea i kaumahaia na na kii, ua ike no kakou, ua naauao no kakou a pau. He mea hookiekie ka naauao: o ke aloha nae ka mea e nui ai ka ikaika.
2 If someone thinks that they know anything, they have not yet reached that knowledge which they ought to have reached.
Ina i manao kekahi, ua akamai ia, aole ia e akamai iki e like me ke akamai e pono ai oia.
3 On the other hand, if a person loves God, they are known by God.
Aka, ina i aloha aku kekahi i ke Akua, ua ikea mai oia e ia.
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.
Ma ka ai ana i na mea i kaumahaia na na kii, ua ike no kakou, he mea ole ke kii, ma ka honua nei, aole hoi he Akua e ae, hookahi wale no.
5 Even supposing that there are so-called “gods” either in heaven or on earth – and there are many such “gods” and “lords” –
He mea no nae i kapaia, he Akua, ma ka lani paha, ma ka hopua paha, no ka mea, ua nui na'kua, a ua nui na haku:
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).
Aka, ia kakou, hookahi no Akua, o ka Makua, a nana mai na mea a pau, a ia ia hoi kakou nei: hookaihi no Haku, o Iesu Kristo, ma ona la na mea a pau, a ma ona la hoi kakou.
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.
Aka, aole i na kanaka a pau keia ike; no ka mea, i keia wa no, me ka manao i na kii, ai no kekahi poe me he mea la i mohaiia na ke kii; a no ka nawaliwali o ko lakou naau, ua haumia.
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.
Aole hoi kakou e aponoia e ke Akua no ka ai; no ka mea, ina e ai kakou, aole e oi ko kakou maikai ilaila; a i ai ole kakou, aole e oi ko kakou ino ilaila.
9 But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.
E malama hoi oukou, o lilo auanei keia pono o oukou, i mea e hihia ai, no ka poe hawawa.
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?
Ina i ike mai kekahi ia oe, i ka mea naauao, e noho ana e ai iloko o ka heiau o ke kii, aole anei e eueu ka manao o ke kanaka hawawa, e ai i na mea i mohaiia na na kii?
11 And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak person is ruined – someone for whose sake Christ died!
Alaila, no kou naauao ana, e make no ka hoahanau hawawa, nona i make ai o Kristo.
12 In this way, by sinning against your fellow followers of the Lord and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ.
A i ka oukou hana hewa ana pela i na hoahanau, a i ko oukou hoeha ana i ko lakou naau nawaliwali, ua hana hewa oukou ia Kristo.
