8:1 De iis autem quæ idolis sacrificantur, scimus quia omnes scientiam habemus. Scientia inflat, caritas vero ædificat.

8:1 Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up: but charity edifieth.

8:2 Si quis autem se existimat scire aliquid, nondum cognovit quemadmodum oporteat eum scire.

8:2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he hath not yet known as he ought to know.

8:3 Si quis autem diligit Deum, hic cognitus est ab eo.

8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known by him.

8:4 De escis autem quæ idolis immolantur, scimus quia nihil est idolum in mundo, et quod nullus est Deus, nisi unus.

8:4 But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.

8:5 Nam etsi sunt qui dicantur dii sive in cælo, sive in terra (siquidem sunt dii multi, et domini multi) :

8:5 For although there be that are called gods, either in heaven or on earth (for there be gods many and lords many):

8:6 nobis tamen unus est Deus, Pater, ex quo omnia, et nos in illum : et unus Dominus Jesus Christus, per quem omnia, et nos per ipsum.

8:6 Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

8:7 Sed non in omnibus est scientia. Quidam autem cum conscientia usque nunc idoli, quasi idolothytum manducant : et conscientia ipsorum cum sit infirma, polluitur.

8:7 But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this present, with conscience of the idol, eat as a thing sacrificed to an idol: and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

8:8 Esca autem nos non commendat Deo. Neque enim si manducaverimus, abundabimus : neque si non manducaverimus, deficiemus.

8:8 But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall we have the more: nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less.

8:9 Videte autem ne forte hæc licentia vestra offendiculum fiat infirmis.

8:9 But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak.

8:10 Si enim quis viderit eum, qui habet scientiam, in idolio recumbentem : nonne conscientia ejus, cum sit infirma, ædificabitur ad manducandum idolothyta ?

8:10 For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols?

8:11 Et peribit infirmus in tua scientia, frater, propter quem Christus mortuus est ?

8:11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ hath died?

8:12 Sic autem peccantes in fratres, et percutientes conscientiam eorum infirmam, in Christum peccatis.

8:12 Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

8:13 Quapropter si esca scandalizat fratrem meum, non manducabo carnem in æternum, ne fratrem meum scandalizem.

8:13 Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.