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Take Care with Your Liberty
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies.
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies.
Food Sacrificed to Idols
But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;
If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.
-- 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.
For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords,
For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)
yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
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.
However not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
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.
But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.
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.
But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.
For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
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 through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.
And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.