Food Sacrificed to Idols (Ezekiel 14:1–11; Romans 14:13–23)
1 DBY But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. BSB BSB: Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2 DBY If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it . BSB BSB: The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.
3 DBY But if any one love God, he is known of him): BSB BSB: But the one who loves God is known by God.
5 DBY For and if indeed there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,) BSB BSB: For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),
6 DBY yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. BSB BSB: yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist. 7 DBY But knowledge is not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. BSB BSB: But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
8 DBY But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage. BSB BSB: But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
9 DBY But see lest anywise this your right to eat itself be a stumbling-block to the weak. BSB BSB: Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
10 DBY For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol? BSB BSB: For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?
11 DBY and the weak one , the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge. BSB BSB: So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
12 DBY Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. BSB BSB: By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 DBY Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother. BSB BSB: Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.
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