1 BAKORINTHE 8
Tša nama ya didimo, le go efoga kgopišo
1 Tša nama ya didimo re a di tseba, gobane ka moka re na le temogo.
Temogo yona e a gogomoša; se se agišago ke lerato. 2 Ge motho a ka re: Taba yeo ke e lemogile, gona o sa hlaelelwa ke temogo ya gona.
3 Fela motho e a ratago Modimo, ke yena a tsebilwego ke Modimo.
4 Ge e le go ja nama ya didimo, re tseba gore medimo ga se selo mo lefaseng, le gore ga go modimo o šele; Modimo ke yena o tee fela. 5 Le ge go ka ba le tše ba rego ke medimo legodimong le lefaseng, etšwe go na le medimo e mentši le marena a mantši,
6 wa rena Modimo ke o tee fela, yena Tata wešo, yena tlhago ya tšohle le boyo bya rena bohle. Le Mong wa rena ke o tee, yena Jesu Kriste Motšweletšašohle le rena.
7 Fela temogo ye e sa na le ba ba e hlokago; ba bangwe le bjale ba sa fokola; mme ka go tlwaela gore go na le medimo, ba ja nama yeo ba e sema didimo, mme ba senya letswalo la bona le le sago fokola.
8 Gomme dijo ga di ne taba mo re itebanyago le Modimo, ge re ja, ga re tšwele pele; ge re sa je, ga re boele morago.
9 Fela, le bone gore ge le dira ka mokgwa woo, e se be go kgopiša bafokodi. 10 Gobane ge e mongwe wa bona a ka bona, wena o nago le temogo o dutše mo go lewago nama ya sedimo, a pelo ya yena mofokodi eo e ka se forwe, a tloga a ja nama ya go hlabelwa medimo? 11 Ke mo temogo ya gago e tlogo senya pelo ya ngwaneno e a fokolago, yo Kriste a mo hwetšego. 12 Ge le ka senyetša bana beno ka mokgwa woo wa go gobatša dipelo tša bafokodi, e ba go senyetša Kriste. 13 Gomme bjale, ge go ja e eba go kgopiša ngwanešo, nna nka napa ka lesa go ja nama le neng, gore ke se kgopiše ngwanešo.
1 CORINTHIANS 8
Food Offered to Idols
1 In your letter you asked me about food offered to idols. All of us know something about this subject. But knowledge makes us proud of ourselves, while love makes us helpful to others. 2 In fact, people who think they know so much don't know anything at all.
3 But God has no doubts about who loves him.
4 Even though food is offered to idols, we know that none of the idols in this world are alive. After all, there is only one God. 5 Many things in heaven and on earth are called gods and lords, but none of them really are gods or lords.
6 We have only one God, and he is the Father. He created everything, and we live for him. Jesus Christ is our only Lord. Everything was made by him, and by him life was given to us.
7 Not everyone knows these things. In fact, many people have grown up with the belief that idols have life in them. So when they eat meat offered to idols, they are bothered by a weak conscience.
8 But food doesn't bring us any closer to God. We are no worse off if we don't eat, and we are no better off if we do.
9 Don't cause problems for someone with a weak conscience, just because you have the right to eat anything. 10 You know all this, and so it doesn't bother you to eat in the temple of an idol. But suppose a person with a weak conscience sees you and decides to eat food that has been offered to idols. 11 Then what you know has destroyed someone Christ died for. 12 When you sin by hurting a follower with a weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 So if I hurt one of the Lord's followers by what I eat, I will never eat meat as long as I live.