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.
Y POR lo que hace á lo sacrificado á los ídolos, sabemos que todos tenemos ciencia. La ciencia hincha, mas la caridad edifica.
2 If someone thinks that they know anything, they have not yet reached that knowledge which they ought to have reached.
Y si alguno se imagina que sabe algo, aun no sabe nada como debe saber.
3 On the other hand, if a person loves God, they are known by God.
Mas si alguno ama á Dios, el tal es conocido de él.
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.
Acerca pues de las viandas que son sacrificadas á los ídolos, sabemos que el ídolo nada es en el mundo, y que no hay más de un Dios.
5 Even supposing that there are so-called “gods” either in heaven or on earth – and there are many such “gods” and “lords” –
Porque aunque haya algunos que se llamen dioses, ó en el cielo, ó en la tierra, (como hay muchos dioses y muchos señores, )
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).
Nosotros empero no tenemos mas de un Dios, el Padre, del cual [son] todas las cosas, y nosotros en él: y un Señor, Jesu-Cristo, por el cual [son] todas las cosas, y nosotros por él.
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.
Mas no en todos [hay] esta ciencia: porque algunos con conciencia del ídolo hasta aquí, comen como sacrificado á ídolos; y su conciencia, siendo flaca, es contaminada.
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.
Si bien la vianda no nos hace más aceptos á Dios: porque ni que comamos, serémos más ricos; ni que no comamos, serémos más pobres.
9 But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.
Mas mirad que esta vuestra libertad no sea tropezadero á los que son flacos.
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?
Porque si te ve alguno, á tí que tienes [esta] ciencia, que estás sentado á la mesa en el lugar de los ídolos, ¿la conciencia de aquel que es flaco, no será adelantada á comer de lo sacrificado á los ídolos?
11 And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak person is ruined – someone for whose sake Christ died!
Y por tu ciencia se perderá el hermano flaco, por el cual Cristo murió?
12 In this way, by sinning against your fellow followers of the Lord and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ.
De esta manera, pues, pecando contra los hermanos, é hiriendo su flaca conciencia, contra Cristo pecais.
