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.
偶像の供物に就きては我等みな知識あることを知る。知識は人を誇らしめ、愛は徳を建つ。
2 If someone thinks that they know anything, they have not yet reached that knowledge which they ought to have reached.
もし人みづから知れりと思はば、知るべき程の事をも知らぬなり。
3 On the other hand, if a person loves God, they are known by God.
されど人もし神を愛せば、その人、神に知られたるなり。
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.
偶像の供物を食ふことに就きては、我ら偶像の世になき者なるを知り、また唯一の神の外には神なきを知る。
5 Even supposing that there are so-called “gods” either in heaven or on earth – and there are many such “gods” and “lords” –
神と稱ふるもの、或は天に或は地にありて、多くの神、おほくの主あるが如くなれど、
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).
我らには父なる唯一の神あるのみ、萬物これより出で、我らも亦これに歸す。また唯一の主イエス・キリストあるのみ、萬物これに由り、我らも亦これに由れり。
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.
されど人みな此の知識あるにあらず、或 人は今もなほ偶像に慣れ、偶像の献物として食する故に、その良心よわくして汚さるるなり。
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.
我らを神の前に立たしむるものは食物にあらず、されば食するも益なく、食せざるも損なし。
9 But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.
されど心して汝らの有てる此の自由を弱き者の躓物とすな。
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?
人もし知識ある汝が偶像の宮にて食事するを見んに、その人 弱きときは良心そそのかされて偶像の献物を食せざらんや。
11 And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak person is ruined – someone for whose sake Christ died!
さらばキリストの代りて死に給ひし弱き兄弟は、汝の知識によりて亡ぶべし。
12 In this way, by sinning against your fellow followers of the Lord and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ.
斯くのごとく汝ら兄弟に對して罪を犯し、その弱き良心を傷めしむるは、キリストに對して罪を犯すなり。
