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1 Corinthians 8

Good News Translation GNT

1 Now, concerning what you wrote about food offered to idols. It is true, of course, that "all of us have knowledge," as they say. Such knowledge, however, puffs a person up with pride; but love builds up.

2 Those who think they know something really don't know as they ought to know.

3 But the person who loves God is known by him.

4 So then, about eating the food offered to idols: we know that an idol stands for something that does not really exist; we know that there is only the one God.

5 Even if there are so-called "gods," whether in heaven or on earth, and even though there are many of these "gods" and "lords,"

6 yet there is for us only one God, the Father, who is the Creator of all things and for whom we live; and there is only one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things were created and through whom we live.

7 But not everyone knows this truth. Some people have been so used to idols that to this day when they eat such food they still think of it as food that belongs to an idol; their conscience is weak, and they feel they are defiled by the food.

8 Food, however, will not improve our relation with God; we shall not lose anything if we do not eat, nor shall we gain anything if we do eat.

9 Be careful, however, not to let your freedom of action make those who are weak in the faith fall into sin.

10 Suppose a person whose conscience is weak in this matter sees you, who have so-called "knowledge," eating in the temple of an idol; will not this encourage him to eat food offered to idols?

11 And so this weak person, your brother for whom Christ died, will perish because of your "knowledge"!

12 And in this way you will be sinning against Christ by sinning against other Christians and wounding their weak conscience.

13 So then, if food makes a believer sin, I will never eat meat again, so as not to make a believer fall into sin.

Revised Standard Version RSV

1 Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." "Knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.

2 If any one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

3 But if one loves God, one is known by him.

4 Hence, 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."

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

6 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.

7 However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through being hitherto accustomed to idols, eat food as really offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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

9 Only take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

10 For if any one sees you, a man of knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, might he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?

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

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

13 Therefore, if food is a cause of my brother's falling, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.