1 Corintios 8
1 Empero en cuanto a lo que a los ídolos es sacrificado, sabemos que todos tenemos ciencia. La ciencia hincha, mas la caridad edifica.
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2 Y si alguno se piensa que sabe algo, aun no sabe cosa alguna como le conviene saber.
But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
3 Mas el que ama a Dios, el tal es conocido de Dios.
But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
4 Así que de las viandas que son sacrificadas a los ídolos, sabemos que el ídolo nada es en el mundo, y que no hay otro Dios, sino solo uno.
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.
5 Porque aunque haya algunos que se llamen dioses, o en el cielo, o en la tierra, (como hay muchos dioses, y muchos señores, )
For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"
6 Para nosotros empero hay un solo 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.
yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
7 Mas no en todos hay esta ciencia; porque algunos con conciencia del ídolo hasta ahora, lo comen como sacrificado a ídolos; y su conciencia, siendo flaca, es contaminada.
However, not all have this knowledge. But some, being so accustomed to idols until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8 Empero la vianda no nos hace mas aceptos a Dios; porque ni que comamos, seremos más ricos: ni que no comamos, seremos más pobres.
But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
9 Mas mirád que esta vuestra libertad no sea de algún modo tropezadero para los que son flacos.
But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
10 Porque si te ve alguno, a ti que tienes esta ciencia, que estás sentado a la mesa en el lugar de los ídolos, ¿la conciencia de aquel que es flaco, no será edificada para comer de lo sacrificado a los ídolos?
For if someone 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?
11 ¿Y por tu ciencia se perderá el hermano flaco, por el cual Cristo murió?
And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whom the Christ died.
12 De esta manera, pues, pecando contra los hermanos, e hiriendo su flaca conciencia, contra Cristo pecáis.
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
