¹U pogledu mesa žrtvovana idolima, znamo, svi posjedujemo znanje. Ali znanje nadima, a ljubav izgrađuje.

¹But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

²Ako tko misli da što zna, još ne zna kako treba znati.

²If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].

³A ljubi li tko Boga, Bog ga poznaje.

³But if any one love God, *he* is known of him):

⁴Dakle, u pogledu blagovanja mesa žrtvovana idolima, znamo: nema idola na svijetu i nema Boga do Jednoga.

⁴-- concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no other God save one.

⁵Jer sve kad bi i bilo nazovibogova ili na nebu ili na zemlji - kao što ima mnogo "bogova" i mnogo "gospodara"! -

⁵For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)

⁶nama je jedan Bog, Otac, od koga je sve, a mi za njega; i jedan Gospodin, Isus Krist, po kome je sve, i mi po njemu.

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

⁷Ali nemaju svi toga znanja. Neki, navikli na idole, još jedu meso kao idolima žrtvovano i njihova se savjest kalja jer je nejaka.

⁷But knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

⁸A k Bogu nas ne privodi jelo. Niti što gubimo ako ne jedemo; niti što dobivamo ako jedemo.

⁸But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

⁹A pazite da ne bi možda ta vaša sloboda bila spoticaj nejakima.

⁹But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

¹⁰Jer vidi li tko tebe koji imaš znanje za stolom u hramu idolskomu, neće li se njegova savjest, jer je nejaka, "izgraditi" da jede žrtvovano idolima?

¹⁰For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?

¹¹I s tvoga znanja propada nejaki, brat za kojega je Krist umro.

¹¹and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.

¹²Tako griješeći protiv braće i ranjavajući njihovu nejaku savjest, protiv Krista griješite.

¹²Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

¹³Zato ako jelo sablažnjava brata moga, ne, neću jesti mesa dovijeka da brata svoga ne sablaznim.

¹³Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.