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.
Zvino maererano nezvakabairwa zvifananidzo, tinoziva kuti tese tine ruzivo. Ruzivo rwunotutumadza, asi rudo rwunovaka.
2 If someone thinks that they know anything, they have not yet reached that knowledge which they ought to have reached.
Uye kana ani nani achifunga kuti anoziva chinhu, haasati aziva chinhu sezvaanofanira kuziva;
3 On the other hand, if a person loves God, they are known by God.
asi kana ani achida Mwari, ndiye anozikanwa naye.
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.
Naizvozvo maererano nekudya zvinhu zvakabairwa zvifananidzo, tinoziva kuti chifananidzo hachisi chinhu panyika, uye kuti hakuna umwe Mwari kunze kweumwe.
5 Even supposing that there are so-called “gods” either in heaven or on earth – and there are many such “gods” and “lords” –
Nokuti kunyange varipo vanonzi vamwari, kana kudenga, kana panyika (sezvavaripo vamwari vazhinji, nemadzishe mazhinji),
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).
asi kwatiri kuna Mwari umwe, Baba, zvinhu zvese zvinouya naye, nesu tiri maari; naIshe umwe, Jesu Kristu, zvinhu zvese zviripo nekuda kwake, nesu tiripo naye.
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.
Asi ruzivo harwuko kwavari vese; nokuti vamwe vane hana yechifananidzo kusvikira ikozvino, vanodya sezvakabairwa chifananidzo; nehana yavo isina simba inoshatiswa.
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.
Zvino kudya hakutiswededzi kuna Mwari; kwete nokuti kana tichidya, tinowanzirwa; uye kwete kuti kana tisingadyi, tinoshaiwa.
9 But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.
Zvino chenjerai, zvimwe kodzero yenyu iyi ive chigumbuso kune avo vasina simba.
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?
Nokuti kana umwe achikuona iwe ane ruzivo ugere pakudya mutembere yechifananidzo, hana yeasina simba haingatsungiswi kuti adye izvo zvakabairwa zvifananidzo here?
11 And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak person is ruined – someone for whose sake Christ died!
Uye neruzivo rwako hama isina simba ichaparara here, Kristu yaakafira?
12 In this way, by sinning against your fellow followers of the Lord and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ.
Zvino kana muchitadzira hama saizvozvo, muchikuvadza hana yavo isina simba, munotadzira Kristu.
