Prima lettera ai Corinzi (1 كورنثوس) 8

SMITH VAN DYKE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 واما من جهة ما ذبح للاوثان فنعلم ان لجميعنا علما. العلم ينفخ ولكن المحبة تبني.	1 Now in regard to meat sacrificed to idols: we realize that "all of us have knowledge"; knowledge inflates with pride, but love builds up.
2 فان كان احد يظن انه يعرف شيئا فانه لم يعرف شيئا بعد كما يجب ان يعرف.	2 If anyone supposes he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
3 ولكن ان كان احد يحب الله فهذا معروف عنده.	3 But if one loves God, one is known by him.
4 فمن جهة اكل ما ذبح للاوثان نعلم ان ليس وثن في العالم وان ليس اله آخر الا واحدا.	4 So about the eating of meat sacrificed to idols: we know that "there is no idol in the world," and that "there is no God but one."
5 لانه وان وجد ما يسمى آلهة سواء كان في السماء او على الارض كما يوجد آلهة كثيرون وارباب كثيرون.	5 Indeed, even though there are so-called gods in heaven and on earth (there are, to be sure, many "gods" and many "lords"),
6 لكن لنا اله واحد الآب الذي منه جميع الاشياء ونحن له. ورب واحد يسوع المسيح الذي به جميع الاشياء ونحن به.	6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all things are and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are and through whom we exist.
7 ولكن ليس العلم في الجميع. بل اناس بالضمير نحو الوثن الى الآن ياكلون كانه مما ذبح لوثن. فضميرهم اذ هو ضعيف يتنجس.	7 But not all have this knowledge. There are some who have been so used to idolatry up until now that, when they eat meat sacrificed to idols, their conscience, which is weak, is defiled.
8 ولكن الطعام لا يقدمنا الى الله. لاننا ان اكلنا لا نزيد وان لم ناكل لا ننقص.	8 Now food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, nor are we better off if we do.
9 ولكن انظروا لئلا يصير سلطانكم هذا معثرة للضعفاء.	9 But make sure that this liberty of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.
10 لانه ان رآك احد يا من له علم متكئا في هيكل وثن أفلا يتقوى ضميره اذ هو ضعيف حتى يأكل ما ذبح للاوثان	10 If someone sees you, with your knowledge, reclining at table in the temple of an idol, may not his conscience too, weak as it is, be "built up" to eat the meat sacrificed to idols?
11 فيهلك بسبب علمك الاخ الضعيف الذي مات المسيح من اجله.	11 Thus through your knowledge, the weak person is brought to destruction, the brother for whom Christ died.
12 وهكذا اذ تخطئون الى الاخوة وتجرحون ضميرهم الضعيف تخطئون الى المسيح.	12 When you sin in this way against your brothers and wound their consciences, weak as they are, you are sinning against Christ.
13 لذلك ان كان طعام يعثر اخي فلن آكل لحما الى الابد لئلا اعثر اخي	13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause my brother to sin.