| International Standard Version | English Standard Version |
| 1Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. | 1Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. |
| 2If anyone thinks he really knows something, he has not yet learned it as he ought to know it. | 2If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. |
| 3But anyone who loves God is known by him. | 3But if anyone loves God, he 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. | 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.” |
| 5For even if there are "gods" in heaven and on earth (as indeed there are many so-called "gods" and "lords"), | 5For although there may be so-called gods 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 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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. | 8Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off 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. | 9But take care that this right of yours does not somehow 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 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? |
| 11In that case, the weak brother for whom the Messiah died is ruined by your knowledge. | 11And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. |
| 12When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak consciences, you are sinning against the Messiah. | 12Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, 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 food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. |
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