Corinthios I 8
1 De iis autem, quae idolis immolantur, scimus quia omnes scientiam habemus. Scientia inflat, charitas vero aedificat.
And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;
2 Si quis autem se existimat scire aliquid, nondum cognovit quemadmodum oporteat eum scire.
and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth [him] to know;
3 Si quis autem diligit Deum, hic cognitus est ab eo.
and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.
4 De escis autem, quae idolis immolantur, scimus quia nihil est idolum in mundo, et quod nullus est Deus, nisi unus.
Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except 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 those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth — as there are gods many and lords many —
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 to us [is] one God, the Father, of whom [are] the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom [are] the 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.
but not in all men [is] the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat [it], 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 victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;
9 Videte autem ne forte haec licentia vestra offendiculum fiat infirmis.
but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,
10 Si enim quis viderit eum, qui habet scientiam, in idolo recumbentem: nonne conscientia eius, cum sit infirma, aedificabitur ad manducandum idolothyta?
for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat — shall not his conscience — he being infirm — be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,
11 Et peribit infirmus in tua conscientia frater, propter quem Christus mortuus est?
and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?
12 Sic autem peccantes in fratres, et percutientes conscientiam eorum infirmam, in Christum peccatis.
and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience — in regard to Christ ye sin;
