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| 1st-Corinthians 8:1 | Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. | Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength. |
| 1st-Corinthians 8:2 | But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know. | If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything; |
| 1st-Corinthians 8:3 | But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him. | But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him. |
| 1st-Corinthians 8:4 | 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. | So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one. |
| 1st-Corinthians 8:5 | 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 who have the name of gods, in heaven or on earth, as there are a number of gods and a number of lords, |
| 1st-Corinthians 8:6 | yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we to him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him. | There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him. |
| 1st-Corinthians 8:7 | However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. | Still, all men have not that knowledge: but some, being used till now to the image, are conscious that they are taking food which has been offered to the image; and because they are not strong in the faith, their minds are troubled. |
| 1st-Corinthians 8:8 | 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 God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better. |
| 1st-Corinthians 8:9 | But be careful that by any means this liberty of yours doesn't become a stumbling block to the weak. | But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble. |
| 1st-Corinthians 8:10 | 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 a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images? |
| 1st-Corinthians 8:11 | And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died. | And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death. |
| 1st-Corinthians 8:12 | Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. | And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ. |
| 1st-Corinthians 8:13 | Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble. | For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother. |
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