The Latin Vulgate VUL
New King James Version NKJV
1 de his autem quae idolis sacrificantur scimus quia omnes scientiam habemus scientia inflat caritas vero aedificat
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Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
2 si quis se existimat scire aliquid nondum cognovit quemadmodum oporteat eum scire
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And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
3 si quis autem diligit Deum hic cognitus est ab eo
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But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
4 de escis autem quae idolis immolantur scimus quia nihil est idolum in mundo et quod nullus Deus nisi unus
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Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
5 nam et si sunt qui dicantur dii sive in caelo sive in terra siquidem sunt dii multi et domini multi
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For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),
6 nobis tamen unus Deus Pater ex quo omnia et nos in illum et unus Dominus Iesus Christus per quem omnia et nos per ipsum
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yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
7 sed non in omnibus est scientia quidam autem conscientia usque nunc idoli quasi idolothytum manducant et conscientia ipsorum cum sit infirma polluitur
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However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8 esca autem nos non commendat Deo neque si non manducaverimus deficiemus neque si manducaverimus abundabimus
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But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.
9 videte autem ne forte haec licentia vestra offendiculum fiat infirmibus
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But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
10 si enim quis viderit eum qui habet scientiam in idolio recumbentem nonne conscientia eius cum sit infirma aedificabitur ad manducandum idolothyta
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For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?
11 et peribit infirmus in tua scientia frater propter quem Christus mortuus est
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And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
12 sic autem peccantes in fratres et percutientes conscientiam eorum infirmam in Christo peccatis
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But when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 quapropter si esca scandalizat fratrem meum non manducabo carnem in aeternum ne fratrem meum scandalizem
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Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
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Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.