Corinthios I 8
1 De iis autem, quae idolis immolantur, scimus quia omnes scientiam habemus. Scientia inflat, charitas vero aedificat.
Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
2 Si quis autem se existimat scire aliquid, nondum cognovit quemadmodum oporteat eum scire.
And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has come to know nothing yet as he ought to know.
3 Si quis autem diligit Deum, hic cognitus est ab eo.
But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
4 De escis autem, quae idolis immolantur, scimus quia nihil est idolum in mundo, et quod nullus est Deus, nisi unus.
Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and no one else is God except the One.
5 Nam etsi sunt qui dicantur dii sive in caelo, sive in terra (siquidem sunt dii multi, et domini multi):
For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on the earth (since there are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’),
6 nobis tamen unus est Deus, Pater, ex quo omnia, et nos in illum: et unus Dominus Iesus Christus, per quem omnia, et nos per ipsum.
yet for us there is one God, the Father, out of whom are all things and we into Him, and one Sovereign Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through Him.
7 Sed non in omnibus est scientia. Quidam autem cum conscientia usque nunc idoli, quasi idolothytum manducant: et conscientia ipsorum cum sit infirma, polluitur.
However, this knowledge is not in everyone; but some, with consciousness of the idol, still eat it as offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8 Esca autem nos non commendat Deo. Neque enim si manducaverimus, abundabimus: neque si non manducaverimus, deficiemus.
But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better off, nor if we do not eat are we worse off.
9 Videte autem ne forte haec licentia vestra offendiculum fiat infirmis.
But take care lest somehow this ‘right’ of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
10 Si enim quis viderit eum, qui habet scientiam, in idolo recumbentem: nonne conscientia eius, cum sit infirma, aedificabitur ad manducandum idolothyta?
For if someone who is weak sees you with your knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not his conscience be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?
11 Et peribit infirmus in tua conscientia frater, propter quem Christus mortuus est?
And so the weak brother, for whom Christ died, will be wasted because of your knowledge.
12 Sic autem peccantes in fratres, et percutientes conscientiam eorum infirmam, in Christum peccatis.
But when you thus sin against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
