¹Zvino pamusoro pezvakabayirwa zvifananidzo, tinoziva kuti tose tine ruzivo. Ruzivo rwunotutumadza, asi rudo rwunosimbisa.

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

²Uye kana ani nani achifunga kuti unoziva chinhu, haasati aziva chinhu sezvaanofanira kuziva.

²If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;

³Asi kana ani nani achida Mwari, ndiye unozikamwa naye.

³but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.

⁴Naizvozvo maererano nekudya zvinhu izvo zvakabayirwa zvifananidzo, tinoziva kuti chifananidzo hachizi chinhu panyika, uye kuti hakuna umwe Mwari kunze kweumwe.

⁴Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no God but one.

⁵Nekuti kunyange varipo vanonzi vamwari, kana kudenga kana panyika (sezvavaripo vamwari vazhinji, nemadzishe mazhinji),

⁵For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;

⁶asi kwatiri kuna Mwari mumwe, Baba, kwaari kunobva zvinhu zvose, nesu tiripo naye; naIshe umwe, Jesu Kristu; kwaari kunobva zvinhu zvose, nesu tiripo naye.

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

⁷Asi ruzivo harwuko kwavari vose; nekuti vamwe vachine hana dzechifananidzo kusvikira zvino, vanodya sezvakabayirwa chifananidzo; nehana yavo isina simba inoshatiswa.

⁷Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

⁸Zvino chikafu hachingatiswededzi kuna Mwari; nekuti kunyange tichidya, hazvirevi kuti tine mubairo; uye kana tisingadyi, hazvirevi kuti tinorashikirwa.

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

⁹Asi chenjerai, kuti kodzero yenyu iyi irege kuva chigumbuso kune avo vasina simba.

⁹But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

¹⁰Nekuti kana mumwe achikuona iwe une ruzivo ugere pakudya mutembere yechifananidzo, hana yaiyeye usinesimba haingatsungiswi kuti adye izvo zvakabayirwa zvifananidzo here?

¹⁰For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

¹¹Uye kubudikidza neruzivo rwako hama iyo isina simba ichaparara, Kristu yaakafira.

¹¹For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

¹²Zvino kana muchitadzira hama saizvozvo, muchikuvadza hana yavo isina simba, munotadzira Kristu.

¹²And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.

¹³Naizvozvo kana chikafu chichigumbusa hama yangu, handingatongodyi nyama kusvikira narinhi, kuti ndirege kugumbusa hama yangu.

¹³Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.