コリント人への手紙第一 8
1 第四項 偶像に献げし供物 偶像の供物に就きては、我等皆知識ある事を知る。知識は驕らすれども愛は徳を建つ。
Now as concerning things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love (agape) edifies.
2 若人ありて何をか知れりと思はば、其は未だ如何に知るべきかを知らざる者なり、
And if any man think that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
3 人若神を愛し奉らば是ぞ神に知たるものなる。
But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
4 偶像の供物を食する事に就きては、偶像の世に何物にも非ざる事、又一の外に神あらざる事、我等之を知る。
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
5 所謂神々は天にも地にも在りて、多くの神多くの主あるが如くなれども、
For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many, )
6 我等には父にて在す神唯一あるのみ、萬物彼に由りて生り、我等も亦彼の為なり。又獨の主イエズス、キリストあるのみ、萬物之に由りて生り、我等も之に由る。
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
7 然れども知識は各自に之あるに非ず、或人々は、今に至るも偶像を物めかしく思ひて、之が供物として物を食すれば、其良心は弱きものなるが故に、之に由りて汚さるるなり。
Nevertheless there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
8 然れど食物は神の御前に於て我等を引立つるものに非ず、蓋食するも優る事なく、食せざるも缼くる事なかるべし。
But food commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
9 但し汝等の其自由が、弱き人を躓かせざる様注意せよ。
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become a stumbling block to them that are weak.
10 蓋人若知識ある者が偶像の堂に於て食卓に就けるを見ば、其良心弱きによりて、己も誘はれて偶像の供物を食するに至るべきに非ずや。
For if any man see you which have knowledge sit to eat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
11 斯てキリストの死して贖ひ給ひし弱き兄弟は、汝の知識の為に亡ぶべし。
And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
12 汝等が斯く兄弟に罪を犯して、其弱き良心を傷つくるは、是キリストに對し奉りて罪を犯すなり。
But when all of you sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, all of you sin against Christ.
