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MODERN LITERAL VERSION - 2026 Update

8:1       Now concerning idol-sacrifices: we know that all have knowledge. The knowledge is arrogant, but the love^* builds up.

8:2 But if anyone thinks to know anything, he has not yet known anything as it is essential to know;

8:3 but if anyone loves^* God, this one has been known by him.

8:4 Therefore, concerning the food of idol-sacrifices, we know that an idol in the world is nothing and that there is no other God except one.

8:5 For^* if indeed^* there are so called^* gods, whether in heaven or upon the earth (just-like there are many such gods and many such lords),

8:6 but to us, there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we are ^*for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we are through him.

8:7 But the knowledge is not in all of them, but until now some believe in the consciousness of the idol, eat it like an idol-sacrifice, and their conscience is defiled, being weak.

8:8 But food does not present us to God, for^* neither if we eat, do we abound, nor if we do not eat, are we lacking?      

8:9 But beware^°, lest this liberty of yours^° might become a stumbling block to the weak.

8:10 For^* if anyone sees you (the one who has knowledge) reclining at a table in an idol’s sanctuary, will not his conscience, being weak, be wrongly built up to eat the idol-sacrifices?

8:11 And the weak brother (because of whom, Christ died) will be perishing upon the basis of your knowledge.

8:12 Now thus, by sinning directly at the brethren and beating their weak conscience, you^° are sinning directly at Christ.

8:13 Hence, if food is offending my brother, I should never eat an idol’s meats forever, in-order-that I should not offend my brother.