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

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

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

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

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

³A ljubi li tko Boga, Bog ga poznaje.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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