The Darby Translation DBY
New Century Version NCV
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 I will write about meat that is sacrificed to idols. We know that "we all have knowledge." Knowledge puffs you up with pride, but 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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If you think you know something, you do not yet know anything as you should.
3 But if any one love God, *he* is known of him):
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But if any person loves God, that person 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 this is what I say about eating meat sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is really nothing in the world, and we know there is only one God.
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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Even though there are things called gods, in heaven or on earth (and there are many "gods" and "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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for us there is only one God -- our Father. All things came from him, and we live for him. And there is only one Lord -- Jesus Christ. All things were made through him, and we also were made through him.
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 all people know this. Some people are still so used to idols that when they eat meat, they still think of it as being sacrificed to an idol. Because their conscience is weak, when they eat it, they feel guilty.
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 will not bring us closer to God. Refusing to eat does not make us less pleasing to God, and eating does not make us better in God's sight.
9 But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.
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But be careful that your freedom does not cause those who are weak in faith to fall into sin.
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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You have "knowledge," so you eat in an idol's temple. But someone who is weak in faith might see you eating there and be encouraged to eat meat sacrificed to idols while thinking it is wrong to do so.
11 and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.
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This weak believer for whom Christ died is ruined because of 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 your brothers and sisters in Christ like this and cause them to do what they feel is wrong, you are also sinning 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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So if the food I eat causes them to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause any of them to sin.
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