哥林多前书 8
祭过偶像的食物
1 关于祭过偶像的食物，我们晓得“我们都有知识”，但知识使人自高自大，惟有爱心能造就人。 2 若有人自以为知道什么，他其实仍不知道他所应当知道的。 3 若有人爱上帝，他就是上帝所认识的人了。
4 关于吃祭过偶像的食物，我们知道“偶像在世上算不得什么”；也知道“上帝只有一位，没有别的”。 5 虽然在天上或地上有许多所谓的神明，就如他们中间有许多的神明，许多的主， 6 但是我们只有一位上帝，就是父，万物都出于他，我们也归于他；并只有一位主，就是耶稣基督，万物都是藉着他而有，我们也是藉着他而有。
7 可是，不是人人都有这知识。有人到现在因拜惯了偶像，仍以为所吃的是祭过偶像的食物；既然他们的良心软弱，也就污秽了。 8 其实，食物不能使我们更接近上帝，因为我们不吃也无损，吃也无益。
9 可是，你们要谨慎，免得你们这自由竟成了软弱人的绊脚石。 10 若有人见你这有知识的在偶像的庙里坐席，而这人的良心是软弱的，他岂不放胆去吃那祭过偶像的食物吗？ 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，伤了他们软弱的良心，就是得罪基督。 13 所以，食物若使我的弟兄跌倒，我就永远不吃肉，免得使我的弟兄跌倒了。
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.