1 Corinthians 8

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Now about food which has been dedicated to false gods. We are wel aware that al of us haveknowledge; but while knowledge puffs up, love is what builds up.	1 Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up; but charity edifieth.
2 Someone may think that he has ful knowledge of something and yet not know it as wel as he should;	2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he hath not yet known as he ought to know.
3 but someone who loves God is known by God.	3 But if any any love God, the same is known by him.
4 On the subject of eating foods dedicated to false gods, we are wel aware that none of the false godsexists in reality and that there is no God other than the One.	4 But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
5 Though there are so-cal ed gods, in the heavens or on earth -- and there are plenty of gods and plentyof lords-	5 For although there be that are called gods, either in heaven or on earth (for there be gods many, and lords many);
6 yet for us there is only one God, the Father from whom al things come and for whom we exist, and oneLord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come and through whom we exist.	6 Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
7 However, not everybody has this knowledge. There are some in whose consciences false gods stillplay such a part that they take the food as though it had been dedicated to a god; then their conscience, beingvulnerable, is defiled,	7 But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this present, with conscience of the idol: eat as a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8 But of course food cannot make us acceptable to God; we lose nothing by not eating it, we gain nothingby eating it.	8 But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall we have the more; nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less.
9 Only be careful that this freedom of yours does not in any way turn into an obstacle to trip those whoare vulnerable.	9 But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak.
10 Suppose someone sees you, who have the knowledge, sitting eating in the temple of some false god,do you not think that his conscience, vulnerable as it is, may be encouraged to eat foods dedicated to falsegods?	10 For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols ?
11 And then it would be through your knowledge that this brother for whom Christ died, vulnerable as heis, has been lost.	11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ hath died ?
12 So, sinning against your brothers and wounding their vulnerable consciences, you would be sinningagainst Christ.	12 Now when you sin thus against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 That is why, if food can be the cause of a brother's downfal , I wil never eat meat any more, ratherthan cause my brother's downfal .	13 Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.