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

¹Zastran maliških žrtev pa vemo, da imamo vsi znanje. Znanje napihuje, a ljubezen pospešuje napredek.

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

²Če kdo misli, da kaj pozna, ni še spoznal, kakor je treba spoznati.

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

³Če pa kdo ljubi Boga, ta je spoznan od njega.

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.

⁴Zastran uživanja maliških žrtev torej vemo, da malik ni nič na svetu in da ni drugega Boga razen enega.

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

⁵Kajti čeprav so, kateri se imenujejo bogovi, bodisi na nebu, bodisi na zemlji (kakor je bogov mnogo in gospodov mnogo),

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.

⁶ali za nas je eden Bog, Oče, iz katerega je vse in mi za njega; in eden Gospod, Jezus Kristus, po katerem je vse in mi po njem.

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 ni v vseh tega spoznanja; kajti nekateri, doslej si v svesti, da je malik kaj, jedo mališke žrtve kot take, in njih vest, ker je slabotna, se skruni.

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.

⁸Jed pa nas ne dela prijetnih Bogu; kajti če ne jemo, nismo nič manjši, niti odličnejši, če jemo.

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

⁹Glejte pa, da ne postane kako ta vaša svobodnost v spotiko slabotnim.

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?

¹⁰Ako namreč kdo ugleda tebe, ki imaš spoznanje, sedečega za mizo v svetišču malikov, ali se ne bo njegova vest, ker je slaboten, izpodbujala, da tudi jé mališke žrtve?

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

¹¹Kajti po tvojem spoznanju se ta slabotni spravlja v pogubo, in to brat, ki je zanj umrl Kristus.

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

¹²Tako pa, grešeč zoper brate in bijoč njih slabotno vest, grešite zoper Kristusa.Zato če jed pohujšuje brata mojega, ne bom jedel mesa nikdar ne, da ne pohujšam brata svojega.

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

¹³Zato če jed pohujšuje brata mojega, ne bom jedel mesa nikdar ne, da ne pohujšam brata svojega.