1 Corinthians 8
1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies.
2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
If any one thinks that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet, as he ought to know it:
3 But anyone who loves God is known by him.
but if any one loves God, he is taught by him).
4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
5 For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
For though there are those which are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are many gods, and many lords, )
6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
7 However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
But all have not this knowledge; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled.
8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.
But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.
9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
But take heed, lest, by any means, this right of yours become a stumbling-block to those who are weak.
10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol’s temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols?
11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
and will not the weak brother, for whom Christ died, perish through your knowledge?
12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
But if you sin in this way against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
