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| 1Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “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 imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. | 2Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. |
| 3But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. | 3But whoever loves God is known by God. |
| 4Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” | 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 although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “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 one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. | 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. |
| 7However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. | 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. |
| 8Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, 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 take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. | 9Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. |
| 10For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? | 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? |
| 11And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. | 11So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. |
| 12Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. | 12When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. |
| 13Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. | 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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