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| 1Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. | 1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that "We all possess knowledge." But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. |
| 2If anyone thinks he really knows something, he has not yet learned it as he ought to know it. | 2Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. |
| 3But anyone who loves God is known by him. | 3But whoever loves God is known by God. |
| 4Now concerning eating food offered to idols: We know that no idol is real in this world and that there is only one God. | 4So 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." |
| 5For even if there are "gods" in heaven and on earth (as indeed there are many so-called "gods" and "lords"), | 5For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"), |
| 6yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom everything came into being and for whom we live. And there is only one Lord, Jesus the Messiah, through whom everything came into being and through whom we live. | 6yet 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. |
| 7But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are so accustomed to idolatry that when they eat food that has been offered to an idol, their conscience becomes contaminated because it is weak. | 7But 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. |
| 8However, food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat food that has been offered to an idol, and no better off if we do. | 8But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do. |
| 9But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block for those who are weak. | 9Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. |
| 10For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you, who know better, eating in an idol's temple, he will be encouraged to eat what has been offered to idols, won't he? | 10For 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? |
| 11In that case, the weak brother for whom the Messiah died is ruined by your knowledge. | 11So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. |
| 12When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak consciences, you are sinning against the Messiah. | 12When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. |
| 13Therefore, if food that I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from stumbling. | 13Therefore, 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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