The Darby Translation DBY
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1 But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
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Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.
2 If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].
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Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.
3 But if any one love God, *he* is known of him):
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But whoever loves God is known by God.
4 -- 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.
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So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.”
5 For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)
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For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),
6 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.
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yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
7 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.
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But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
8 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.
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But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
9 But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.
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Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
10 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?
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For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?
11 and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.
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So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
12 Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
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When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 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.
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Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.
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