1 KORINTUS 8

Diona kande dipemalaran lako deata

8:1-13

1 Iatu diona apa dipemalaran lako deata, taissan kumua mintu’ki’ den paissanta. Iatu kapaissanan umpamadao penaa, apa iatu pa’kaboro’ umpabatta’ kapatonganan.

2 Iake denni tau ussanga kalena unnissan misa’ apa, tae’pa naampui kapaissanan sipatunna kapaissanan.

3 Apa iake denni tau ungkamali’ Puang Matua, iamo Natandai Puang Matua.

4 Iatu diona ungkande kande dipemalaran lako deata, taissan kumua iatu deata moi misa’ tae’ lan te lino, sia tae’ kapenomban senga’ sangadinna Misa’ri.

5 Belanna moi anna buda tu disanganna deata, la dao langi’, la lan lino, susitu nasanganna tau kumua buda tu deata sia buda tu puang,

6 apa kita, Misa’ri Kapenomban, iamotu Ambe’, namintu’na angge maritik Ia nasang oto’na, na kita te ma’pangudu lu lakoki’, sia misa’ dukari tu Puang, iamotu Yesu Kristus, napodenni mintu’ apa sia tapobannangI den.

7 Apa tae’ namintu’ tau paissan dionate. Den tu tau pira sae lako totemo nenne’ ma’palulako deata tu penaanna, belanna nakabiasaimo anna kandei tu apa dipenombammo lako deata, na belanna langga’ tu sukaran inaanna, napomarutai.

8 Tonganna iatu kande tae’na ia mebaa lako Puang Matua. Iake tae’i takandei, tae’ra tapokurang, iake takandei tae’ra tapolosong.

9 Apa pengkilalai, da anna potitumbui to langga’ kapatongananna tu kataeranna mikatondo’i.

10 Belanna iake natiroko tau tu iko to paissan unno’ko kumande lan banua deata tae’raka nala dipabatta’ tu sukaran inaa langga’na la ungkandei tu kande dipenomban lako deata?

11 Na susito dionami kapaissanammu naposanggang tu to langga’, tu siulu’ mangka Napomate Kristus.

12 Apa iake susito mipokasalan lako tu siulu’, sia mipabangke tu sukaran inaa langga’na, kasalan dukakomi lako Kristus.
13 Iamoto iake diona kande napotitumbu penaanna siulu’ku, tae’mo kula ungkande len duku’ sae lakona, da angku pabu’tui tu napotitumbunna penaanna siulu’ku.

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.