1 Coríntios 8

1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know. 3 But anyone who loves God is known by him.

4 Therefore 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. 5 For though there are things that are called "gods", whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many "gods" and many "lords"— 6 yet 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.

7 However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, 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. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better. 9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For 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? 11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

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.