1 Corinthians 8
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1De iis autem quæ idolis sacrificantur, scimus quia omnes scientiam habemus. Scientia inflat, caritas vero ædificat.
2But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
2Si quis autem se existimat scire aliquid, nondum cognovit quemadmodum oporteat eum scire.
3But anyone who loves God is known by him.
3Si quis autem diligit Deum, hic cognitus est ab eo.
4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
4De escis autem quæ idolis immolantur, scimus quia nihil est idolum in mundo, et quod nullus est Deus, nisi unus.
5For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
5Nam etsi sunt qui dicantur dii sive in cælo, sive in terra (siquidem sunt dii multi, et domini multi):
6yet to 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 we live through him.
6nobis tamen unus est Deus, Pater, ex quo omnia, et nos in illum: et unus Dominus Jesus Christus, per quem omnia, et nos per ipsum.
7However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
7Sed non in omnibus est scientia. Quidam autem cum conscientia usque nunc idoli, quasi idolothytum manducant: et conscientia ipsorum cum sit infirma, polluitur.
8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.
8Esca autem nos non commendat Deo. Neque enim si manducaverimus, abundabimus: neque si non manducaverimus, deficiemus.
9But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
9Videte autem ne forte hæc licentia vestra offendiculum fiat infirmis.
10For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
10Si enim quis viderit eum, qui habet scientiam, in idolio recumbentem: nonne conscientia ejus, cum sit infirma, ædificabitur ad manducandum idolothyta?
11And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
11Et peribit infirmus in tua scientia, frater, propter quem Christus mortuus est?
12Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
12Sic autem peccantes in fratres, et percutientes conscientiam eorum infirmam, in Christum peccatis.
13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
13Quapropter si esca scandalizat fratrem meum, non manducabo carnem in æternum, ne fratrem meum scandalizem.
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