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

¹[Ny amin'ny hena izay efa natao fanatitra tamin'ny sampy] Ary ny amin'ny hena aterina amin'ny sampy, dia fantatsika fa manana fahalalana isika rehetra. Ny fahalalana mampieboebo; fa ny fitiavana no mampandroso.

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

²Fa raha misy manao azy hahalala, dia tsy mbola mahalala araka izay tokony ho fantany akory izy.

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

³Fa raha misy tia an'Andriamanitra, dia izy no fantany.

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.

⁴Ary ny amin'ny mihinana ny hena aterina amin'ny sampy, dia fantatsika fa tsinontsinona akory ny sampy amin'izao tontolo izao, ary tsy misy Andriamanitra afa-tsy Iray ihany.

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

⁵Fa na dia misy aza atao hoe andriamanitra, na any an-danitra, na etỳ an-tany (toy ny misy andriamanitra maro sy tompo maro);

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.

⁶nefa amintsika kosa dia Andriamanitra iray ihany, dia ny Ray, Izay nihavian'ny zavatra rehetra, ary ho Azy isika; ary iray ihany ny Tompo, dia Jesosy Kristy, Izay nahariana ny zavatra rehetra sady nahariana antsika koa.

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.

⁷Kanefa tsy ary manana izany fahalalana izany avokoa ny olona rehetra; fa ny sasany, satria zatra amin'ny sampy mandraka ankehitriny izao, dia homana ny hena ka mahatsiaro azy ho zavatra naterina tamin'ny sampy; ka dia voaloto ny fieritreretany, satria malemy.

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.

⁸Fa ny hanina tsy hampaninona antsika amin'Andriamanitra; fa na dia tsy homana aza isika, dia tsy matiantoka, ary na dia homana kosa aza isika, dia tsy mahazo tombony.

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

⁹Nefa tandremo, fandrao izany fahafahanareo izany ho tonga fahatafintohinana ho an'ny malemy.

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?

¹⁰Fa raha misy mahita anao izay manam-pahalalana mipetraka mihinana ao amin'ny tempolin'ny sampy, tsy hampahasahy ny fieritreretan'ny malemy hihinana izay hena aterina amin'ny sampy koa va izany?

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

¹¹Fa verin'ny fahalalanao ny malemy, dia ny rahalahy izay navotan'i Kristy tamin'ny fahafatesana?

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

¹²Fa raha manota toy izany amin'ny rahalahy ianareo ka manimba ny fieritreretan'ny malemy, dia manota amin'i Kristy ianareo.Koa raha ny hanina no mahatafintohina ny rahalahiko, dia tsy hihinan-kena akory aho mandrakizay, fandrao mahatafintohina ny rahalahiko.

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

¹³Koa raha ny hanina no mahatafintohina ny rahalahiko, dia tsy hihinan-kena akory aho mandrakizay, fandrao mahatafintohina ny rahalahiko.