¹祭過偶像的食物的問題關於祭過偶像的食物，我們曉得我們都有知識。但知識會使人自高自大，唯有愛心能造就人。

¹Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

²如果有人自以為知道些甚麼，那麼，他應該知道的，他還是不知道。

²But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

³如果有人愛　神，這人是　神所知道的。

³But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

⁴關於吃祭過偶像的食物，我們知道世上的偶像算不得甚麼，也知道　神只有一位，沒有別的神。

⁴Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

⁵雖然有被稱為神的，無論在天上或在地上（就如有許多的“神”許多的“主”），

⁵For though there are things that are called “gods,” whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords”;

⁶然而我們只有一位　神，就是父；萬物都是從他而來，我們也為了他而活。我們也只有一位主，就是耶穌基督；萬物都是藉著他而有的，我們也是藉著他而有的。

⁶yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

⁷不過，這種知識不是人人都有的。有些人直到現在習慣了拜偶像的事，因此他們吃的時候，就把這些食物看作是真的獻過給偶像的；他們的良心既然軟弱，就被污穢了。

⁷However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

⁸其實食物不能使我們親近　神，我們不吃也無損，吃也無益。

⁸But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

⁹然而你們要謹慎，免得你們這自由成了軟弱的人的絆腳石。

⁹But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

¹⁰因為如果有人看見你這有知識的人，在偶像的廟裡吃飯，他的良心若是軟弱，他不就放膽去吃那祭過偶像的食物嗎？

¹⁰For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

¹¹因此，基督已經為他死了的那軟弱的弟兄，就因你的知識而滅亡了。

¹¹And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

¹²你們這樣得罪弟兄，傷了他們軟弱的良心，就是得罪基督了。

¹²Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

¹³所以，如果食物使我的弟兄跌倒，我就永遠不再吃肉，免得使我的弟兄跌倒了。

¹³Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.