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1 Corinthians 8

Food Sacrificed to Idols

But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

Food Offered to Idols

Now concerninga food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.

If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].

If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

But if any one love God, *he* is known of him):

But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.b

-- concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no other God save one.

Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”

For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)

For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth — as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords” —

yet to us [there is] one God, the Father, of whom all things, and *we* for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and *we* by him.

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

But knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eatingc in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged,d if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?

and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.

And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

Thus, sinning against your brotherse and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.

Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

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