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.
祭偶像的食物
1关于祭过偶像的食物，我们知道大家都有这方面的知识，但知识会使人自高，唯有爱心才能造就人。 2若有人自以为知道些什么，其实他仍未达到真正知道的地步。 3但如果有人爱上帝，这人是上帝所认识的。
4关于吃祭过偶像的食物，我们知道世上的偶像算不得什么，只有一位上帝，此外别无他神。 5虽然天上地上有许多被称为神明的，好像有许多神明、许多主， 6但我们只有一位上帝，就是天父，祂是万物的源头，是我们的归宿。我们也只有一位主，就是耶稣基督，万物都是借着祂而存在，我们也是借着祂而存在。
7不过，并不是所有的人都有这种知识。有些人因为以前拜惯了偶像，现在吃到某些食物就觉得是祭过偶像的，良心因为不安而被玷污了。 8其实食物并不能使我们讨上帝喜悦，我们不吃也没有损失，吃了也不会更好。
9但你们要小心，不要让你们的自由绊倒那些软弱的人。 10如果有人看见你这明白以上道理的人竟然坐在偶像的庙中吃喝，他虽然良心不安，岂不还是会放胆吃祭过偶像的食物吗？ 11这样，你的知识反而令那软弱的，就是基督舍命救回的弟兄姊妹受损。 12你们这样得罪弟兄姊妹，伤了他们脆弱的良心，就是得罪基督。 13所以，如果我吃某些食物会让我的弟兄在信仰上跌倒，我就情愿永远不吃8:13 “不吃”希腊文是“不吃肉”。，免得令他们跌倒。
