The Latin Vulgate w/ Apocrypha VULA
New International Version NIV
1 de his autem quae idolis sacrificantur scimus quia omnes scientiam habemus scientia inflat caritas vero aedificat
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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 si quis se existimat scire aliquid nondum cognovit quemadmodum oporteat eum scire
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Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.
3 si quis autem diligit Deum hic cognitus est ab eo
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But whoever loves God is known by God.
4 de escis autem quae idolis immolantur scimus quia nihil est idolum in mundo et quod nullus Deus nisi unus
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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 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 indeed 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 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 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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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 esca autem nos non commendat Deo neque si non manducaverimus deficiemus neque si manducaverimus abundabimus
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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 videte autem ne forte haec licentia vestra offendiculum fiat infirmibus
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Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the 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 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 et peribit infirmus in tua scientia frater propter quem Christus mortuus est
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So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
12 sic autem peccantes in fratres et percutientes conscientiam eorum infirmam in Christo peccatis
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When you sin against them in this way 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 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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