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

¹祭过偶像的食物的问题

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

²如果有人自以为知道些什么，那么，他应该知道的，他还是不知道。

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

³如果有人爱　神，这人是　神所知道的。

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.

⁴关于吃祭过偶像的食物，我们知道世上的偶像算不得什么，也知道　神只有一位，没有别的神。

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

⁵虽然有被称为神的，无论在天上或在地上（就如有许多的“神”许多的“主”），

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.

⁶然而我们只有一位　神，就是父；万物都是从他而来，我们也为了他而活。我们也只有一位主，就是耶稣基督；万物都是借着他而有的，我们也是借着他而有的。

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.

⁷不过，这种知识不是人人都有的。有些人直到现在习惯了拜偶像的事，因此他们吃的时候，就把这些食物看作是真的献过给偶像的；他们的良心既然软弱，就被污秽了。

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.

⁸其实食物不能使我们亲近　神，我们不吃也无损，吃也无益。

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

⁹然而你们要谨慎，免得你们这自由成了软弱的人的绊脚石。

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?

¹⁰因为如果有人看见你这有知识的人，在偶像的庙里吃饭，他的良心若是软弱，他不就放胆去吃那祭过偶像的食物吗？

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

¹¹因此，基督已经为他死了的那软弱的弟兄，就因你的知识而灭亡了。

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

¹²你们这样得罪弟兄，伤了他们软弱的良心，就是得罪基督了。

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

¹³所以，如果食物使我的弟兄跌倒，我就永远不再吃肉，免得使我的弟兄跌倒了。