8:1  de his autem quae idolis                1.  Now as touching things offered unto
sacrificantur scimus quia omnes              idols, we know that we all have
scientiam habemus scientia inflat            knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but
caritas vero aedificat                       charity edifieth.

8:2  si quis se existimat scire aliquid      2.  And if any man think that he
nondum cognovit quemadmodum oporteat         knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing
eum scire                                    yet as he ought to know.

8:3  si quis autem diligit Deum hic          3.  But if any man love God, the same
cognitus est ab eo                           is known of him.

8:4  de escis autem quae idolis              4.  As concerning therefore the eating
immolantur scimus quia nihil est idolum      of those things that are offered in
in mundo et quod nullus Deus nisi unus       sacrifice unto idols, we know that an
                                             idol is nothing in the world, and that
                                             there is none other God but one.

8:5  nam et si sunt qui dicantur dii         5.  For though there be that are called
sive in caelo sive in terra siquidem         gods, whether in heaven or in earth,
sunt dii multi et domini multi               (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

8:6  nobis tamen unus Deus Pater ex quo      6.  But to us there is but one God, the
omnia et nos in illum et unus Dominus        Father, of whom are all things, and we
Iesus Christus per quem omnia et nos         in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by
per ipsum                                    whom are all things, and we by him.

8:7  sed non in omnibus est scientia         7.  Howbeit there is not in every man
quidam autem conscientia usque nunc          that knowledge: for some with
idoli quasi idolothytum manducant et         conscience of the idol unto this hour
conscientia ipsorum cum sit infirma          eat it as a thing offered unto an idol;
polluitur                                    and their conscience being weak is
                                             defiled.

8:8  esca autem nos non commendat Deo        8.  But meat commendeth us not to God:
neque si non manducaverimus deficiemus       for neither, if we eat, are we the
neque si manducaverimus abundabimus          better; neither, if we eat not, are we
                                             the worse.

8:9  videte autem ne forte haec              9.  But take heed lest by any means
licentia vestra offendiculum fiat            this liberty of your's become a
infirmibus                                   stumblingblock to them that are weak.

8:10  si enim quis viderit eum qui           10.  For if any man see thee which hast
habet scientiam in idolio recumbentem        knowledge sit at meat in the idol's
nonne conscientia eius cum sit infirma       temple, shall not the conscience of him
aedificabitur ad manducandum idolothyta      which is weak be emboldened to eat
                                             those things which are offered to idols;

8:11  et peribit infirmus in tua             11.  And through thy knowledge shall
scientia frater propter quem Christus        the weak brother perish, for whom
mortuus est                                  Christ died?

8:12  sic autem peccantes in fratres et      12.  But when ye sin so against the
percutientes conscientiam eorum              brethren, and wound their weak
infirmam in Christo peccatis                 conscience, ye sin against Christ.

8:13  quapropter si esca scandalizat         13.  Wherefore, if meat make my brother
fratrem meum non manducabo carnem in         to offend, I will eat no flesh while
aeternum ne fratrem meum scandalizem         the world standeth, lest I make my
                                             brother to offend.