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

¹Yahusu sasa vyakula vilivyotambikiwa sanamu: Tunajua kwamba sisi sote tuna ujuzi, lakini ujuzi huo huwafanya watu wawe na majivuno; lakini mapendo hujenga.

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

²Anayefikiri kwamba anajua kitu, kwa kweli hajui chochote kama inavyompasa.

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

³Lakini anayempenda Mungu huyo anajulikana naye.

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.

⁴Kwa hiyo, kuhusu vyakula vilivyotambikiwa sanamu, twajua kwamba sanamu si kitu duniani; twajua kwamba Mungu ni mmoja tu.

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

⁵Hata kama viko vitu viitwavyo miungu duniani au mbinguni, na hata kama wako miungu na mabwana wengi,

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.

⁶hata hivyo, kwetu sisi yuko Mungu mmoja tu: Baba, Muumba wa vyote, ambaye kwa ajili yake sisi tuko. Pia yuko Bwana mmoja tu, Yesu Kristo, ambaye kwa njia yake vitu vyote viliumbwa, na sisi twaishi kwa njia yake.

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.

⁷Lakini, si kila mtu anao ujuzi huu. Maana wako watu wengine waliokwisha zoea sanamu, watu ambao mpaka hivi sasa wanapokula vyakula huviona bado kama vyakula vilivyotambikiwa sanamu. Na kwa vile dhamiri zao ni dhaifu, hutiwa unajisi.

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.

⁸Lakini chakula hakiwezi kutupeleka karibu zaidi na Mungu. Tukiacha kukila hatupungukiwi kitu, tukikila hatuongezewi kitu.

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

⁹Lakini, jihadharini: huu uhuru wenu usiwafanye walio na imani dhaifu waanguke katika dhambi.

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?

¹⁰Maana, mtu ambaye dhamiri yake ni dhaifu, akikuona wewe mwenye ujuzi unakula vyakula hivyo ndani ya hekalu la sanamu, je, hatatiwa moyo wa kula vyakula vilivyotambikiwa sanamu?

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

¹¹Hivyo, huyo ndugu yako dhaifu ambaye Kristo alikufa kwa ajili yake, atapotea kwa sababu ya ujuzi wako.

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

¹²Kama mkiwakosesha ndugu zenu jinsi hiyo na kuzijeruhi dhamiri zao dhaifu, mtakuwa mmemkosea Kristo.

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

¹³Kwa hiyo, ikiwa chakula husababisha kuanguka kwa ndugu yangu, sitakula nyama kamwe, nisije nikamfanya ndugu yangu aanguke katika dhambi.