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1. Korinťanom 8

1 O mäse obetovanom modlám vieme, že my všetci máme poznanie. Ale poznanie nadúva, kým láska buduje.2 Ak si niekto myslí, že niečo vie, ešte to nevie tak, ako by mal vedieť.3 Ale ak niekto miluje Boha, toho Boh pozná.4 O jedení mäsa obetovaného modlám teda vieme, že na svete niet nijakej modly a nijakého boha, iba Jeden.5 Lebo aj keď sú takí, čo sa nazývajú bohmi či už na nebi alebo na zemi - ako je veľa bohov a veľa pánov -,6 my máme iba jedného Boha, Otca, od ktorého je všetko a my sme pre neho, a jedného Pána, Ježiša Krista, skrze ktorého je všetko, aj my sme skrze neho.7 Lenže nie všetci majú poznanie. Niektorí sú ešte teraz takí zvyknutí na modly, že jedia mäso, akoby bolo naozaj obetované modlám, a ich svedomie sa poškvrňuje, lebo je slabé.8 Ale jedlo nás nepriblíži k Bohu: ani keď nejeme, nič nestratíme, ani keď jeme, nič nezískame.9 Len si dajte pozor, aby táto vaša sloboda nebola na pohoršenie slabým.10 Lebo keď niekto uvidí toho, čo má poznanie, stolovať v pohanskom chráme, neposmelí sa jeho svedomie, pretože je slabé, aby jedol mäso obetované modlám?11 A slabý zahynie pre tvoje poznanie - brat, za ktorého zomrel Kristus!12 Keď takto hrešíte proti bratom a zraňujete ich slabé svedomie, hrešíte proti Kristovi.13 Preto ak jedlo pohoršuje môjho brata, nebudem nikdy jesť mäso, aby som nepohoršil svojho brata.

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.