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 puffs up, but love builds up.

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

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

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

³But if anyone loves 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.

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.

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

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

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 for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

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

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.

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. For neither, if we don’t eat, 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 be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block 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 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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