Concerning Food Sacrificed to Idols
1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. 2Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. 3But whoever loves God is known by God.8:2,3 An early manuscript and another ancient witness think they have knowledge do not yet know as they ought to know. 3 But whoever loves truly knows.
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 so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), 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 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. 8But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
9Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 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? 11So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 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.
Abincin da aka miƙa wa gumaka
1To, game da abincin da aka miƙa hadaya ga gumaka kuwa. Mun san cewa dukanmu muna da ilimi. Ilimi yakan kawo girman kai, amma ƙauna takan gina. 2Mutumin da yake tsammani ya san abu, sanin da yake da shi bai isa ba. 3Amma mutumin da yake ƙaunar Allah, Allah yana sane da shi.
4To, game da cin abincin da aka miƙa hadaya ga gumaka kuwa, mun san cewa “Gunki ba kome ba ne a duniya”, kuma “Babu wani Allah sai dai ɗaya.” 5Gama ko da akwai abubuwan da ake ce da su alloli, a sama ko a ƙasa (don kuwa akwai “alloli” da “iyayengiji” da yawa), 6duk da haka a gare mu dai akwai Allah ɗaya kaɗai, Uba, wanda dukan abubuwa suke daga gare shi, wanda kuma saboda shi ne muke rayuwa, kuma akwai Ubangiji ɗaya, Yesu Kiristi, wanda ta wurinsa ne aka yi dukan abu, ta wurinsa ne kuma muke rayuwa.
7Amma ba kowa ne ya san wannan ba. Har yanzu, waɗansu mutane sun saba da tunani cewa gumaka ainihi ne, saboda haka sa’ad da suka ci irin abincin nan, sukan ɗauka cewa kamar an miƙa wa ga gunki ne, kuma da yake lamirinsu ba ƙarfi, yakan ƙazantu. 8Gaskiya ne cewa ba ma samun yardar Allah ta wurin abin da muke ci. Ba ma rasa wani abu idan ba mu ci ba, kuma ba ma ƙaru da wani abu in muka ci.
9Sai dai ku yi hankali, kada yin amfani da ’yancinku yă zama abin sa tuntuɓe ga marasa ƙarfi. 10Gama in wani wanda lamirinsa ba shi da ƙarfi ya gan ka, kai da kake da wannan sani, kana ci a haikalin gumaka, ashe, ba zai sami ƙarfin halin cin abin da aka miƙa wa gumaka ba? 11Saboda haka ta wurin sanin nan naka sai ka sa wannan ɗan’uwa marar ƙarfi wanda Kiristi ya mutu dominsa yă hallaka. 12Sa’ad da ka rushe lamiri mai bi marar ƙarfi, ka yi wa Kiristi zunubi ke nan. 13Saboda haka, in abin da nake ci zai sa ɗan’uwana yă yi zunubi, ba zan ƙara cin nama ba, don kada in sa shi yă yi tuntuɓe.
