La Biblia Reina-Valera (Español) RVR
New Living Translation NLT
1 Y POR lo que hace á lo sacrificado á los ídolos, sabemos que todos tenemos ciencia. La ciencia hincha, mas la caridad edifica.
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Now regarding your question about food that has been offered to idols. Yes, we know that “we all have knowledge” about this issue. But while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that strengthens the church.
2 Y si alguno se imagina que sabe algo, aun no sabe nada como debe saber.
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Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn’t really know very much.
3 Mas si alguno ama á Dios, el tal es conocido de él.
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But the person who loves God is the one whom God recognizes.
4 Acerca, pues, de las viandas que son saacrificadas á los ídolos, sabemos que el ídolo nada es en el mundo, y que no hay más de un Dios.
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So, what about eating meat that has been offered to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that there is only one God.
5 Porque aunque haya algunos que se llamen dioses, ó en el cielo, ó en la tierra (como hay muchos dioses y muchos señores),
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There may be so-called gods both in heaven and on earth, and some people actually worship many gods and many lords.
6 Nosotros empero no tenemos más de un Dios, el Padre, del cual son todas las cosas, y nosotros en él: y un Señor Jesucristo, por el cual son todas las cosas, y nosotros por él.
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But for us, There is one God, the Father, by whom all things were created, and for whom we live. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things were created, and through whom we live.
7 Mas no en todos hay esta ciencia: porque algunos con conciencia del ídolo hasta aquí, comen como sacrificado á ídolos; y su conciencia, siendo flaca, es contaminada.
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However, not all believers know this. Some are accustomed to thinking of idols as being real, so when they eat food that has been offered to idols, they think of it as the worship of real gods, and their weak consciences are violated.
8 Si bien la vianda no nos hace más aceptos á Dios: porque ni que comamos, seremos más ricos; ni que no comamos, seremos más pobres.
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It’s true that we can’t win God’s approval by what we eat. We don’t lose anything if we don’t eat it, and we don’t gain anything if we do.
9 Mas mirad que esta vuestra libertad no sea tropezadero á los que son flacos.
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But you must be careful so that your freedom does not cause others with a weaker conscience to stumble.
10 Porque si te ve alguno, á ti que tienes ciencia, que estás sentado á la mesa en el lugar de los ídolos, ¿la conciencia de aquel que es flaco, no será adelantada á comer de lo sacrificado á los ídolos?
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For if others see you—with your “superior knowledge”—eating in the temple of an idol, won’t they be encouraged to violate their conscience by eating food that has been offered to an idol?
11 Y por tu ciencia se perderá el hermano flaco por el cual Cristo murió.
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So because of your superior knowledge, a weak believer for whom Christ died will be destroyed.
12 De esta manera, pues, pecando contra los hermanos, é hiriendo su flaca conciencia, contra Cristo pecáis.
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And when you sin against other believers by encouraging them to do something they believe is wrong, you are sinning against Christ.
13 Por lo cual, si la comida es á mi hermano ocasión de caer, jamás comeré carne por no escandalizar á mi hermano.
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So if what I eat causes another believer to sin, I will never eat meat again as long as I live—for I don’t want to cause another believer to stumble.
The Reina-Valera Antigua (1602) is in the public domain.
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