1 Coríntios 8

Te Take e Pā ana ki te Kai i Tāpaea ki ngā Whakapakoko

1 Nā, mō ngā mea e patua ana mā ngā whakapakoko: E mōhio ana tātou kei a tātou katoa te mātauranga. Ko tā te mātauranga he whakapupuhi; ko tā te aroha ia he waihanga. 2 Ki te mea tētahi e mātau ana ia ki tētahi mea, kāhore tōna mātauranga kia rite noa ki tō te mātauranga tikanga; 3 ki te aroha ia tētahi ki te Atua, kua mātauria tēnei e ia.

4 Nā reira, mō te kai i ngā mea e patua ana mā ngā whakapakoko, e mōhio ana tātou he kore noa iho te whakapakoko i te ao, kāhore hoki he Atua kē, kotahi anake. 5 Ahakoa hoki tērā ngā mea e kīia nei he atua, i te rangi rānei, i te whenua rānei; he tini nei hoki ngā atua, he tini ngā ariki; 6 ki a tātou ia kotahi anō Atua, ko te Matua, i ahu mai i a ia ngā mea katoa, ko tātou ki a ia; kotahi hoki Ariki, ko Īhu Karaiti, nāna nei ngā mea katoa, nāna hoki tātou.

7 Otirā, kāhore tērā mātauranga i ngā tāngata katoa. Engari tērā anō ētahi, i te mea kua taunga ki te whakapakoko tae mai ki nāianei, e kai ana i te mea i patua mā te whakapakoko; ā, ka poke tō rātou hinengaro ngoikore. 8 Ehara rāia te kai i te mea e paingia ai tātou e te Atua. Nō te mea ahakoa kāhore tātou e kai, e kore e heke iho tō tātou pai; ā, ahakoa kai tātou, e kore e kake tō tātou pai.

9 Engari, kia tūpato ki tēnei wāhi i tukua nei ki a koutou, kei waiho hei whakahinga mō te hunga ngoikore. 10 Ki te mea hoki ka kite tētahi i a koe, i te mea mōhio, e noho ana ki te kai i roto i te temepara o te whakapakoko, e kore koia e kakama ake tōna hinengaro, mehemea ia he ngoikore, e kakama ake ki te kai i ngā mea e patua ana mā te whakapakoko? 11 Mā tōu mātauranga hoki ka ngaro ai te mea ngoikore, te teina he whakaaro nei ki a ia i mate ai a te Karaiti. 12 Nā, i a koutou ka hara nei ki ngā tēina, ka patu nei i tō rātou hinengaro ngoikore, e hara ana koutou ki a te Karaiti. 13 Mō konei, ki te hē tōku teina i te kai, e kore rawa ahau e kai kikokiko ake tonu atu, kei hē i ahau tōku teina.

1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. 2 If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know; 3 but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him. 4 Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one. 5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many; 6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him. 7 Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. 8 But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. 9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak. 10 For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 11 For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.