哥林多前书 8
祭过偶像的食物
1 论到祭偶像之物，我们晓得我们都有知识。但知识是叫人自高自大，惟有爱心能造就人。 2 若有人以为自己知道什么，按他所当知道的，他仍是不知道。 3 若有人爱 神，这人乃是 神所知道的。 4 论到吃祭偶像之物，我们知道偶像在世上算不得什么，也知道 神只有一位，再没有别的 神。 5 虽有称为神的，或在天，或在地，就如那许多的神，许多的主； 6 然而我们只有一位 神，就是父—万物都本于他；我们也归于他—并有一位主，就是耶稣基督—万物都是借着他有的；我们也是借着他有的。
7 但人不都有这等知识。有人到如今因拜惯了偶像，就以为所吃的是祭偶像之物。他们的良心既然软弱，也就污秽了。 8 其实食物不能叫 神看中我们，因为我们不吃也无损，吃也无益。 9 只是你们要谨慎，恐怕你们这自由竟成了那软弱人的绊脚石。 10 若有人见你这有知识的，在偶像的庙里坐席，这人的良心若是软弱，岂不放胆去吃那祭偶像之物吗？ 11 因此，基督为他死的那软弱弟兄，也就因你的知识沉沦了。 12 你们这样得罪弟兄们，伤了他们软弱的良心，就是得罪基督。 13 所以，食物若叫我弟兄跌倒，我就永远不吃肉，免得叫我弟兄跌倒了。
1 Corinthians 8
Food Sacrificed to Idols
1 With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that “we all have knowledge.”s Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.2 If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.
3 But if someone loves God, het is known by God.t
4 With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.”s5 If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),
6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live.t
7 But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.8 Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.9 But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.10 For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be “strengthened”t to eat food offered to idols?11 So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister,t for whom Christ died, is destroyed.t12 If you sin against your brothers or sisterst in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of themt to sin.