Food Offered to Idols
1 In your letter you asked me about food offered to idols. All of us know something about this subject. But knowledge makes us proud of ourselves, while love makes us helpful to others. 2 In fact, people who think they know so much don't know anything at all. 3 But God has no doubts about who loves him.
4 Even though food is offered to idols, we know that none of the idols in this world are alive. After all, there is only one God. 5 Many things in heaven and on earth are called gods and lords, but none of them really are gods or lords. 6 We have only one God, and he is the Father. He created everything, and we live for him. Jesus Christ is our only Lord. Everything was made by him, and by him life was given to us.
7 Not everyone knows these things. In fact, many people have grown up with the belief that idols have life in them. So when they eat meat offered to idols, they are bothered by a weak conscience. 8 But food doesn't bring us any closer to God. We are no worse off if we don't eat, and we are no better off if we do.
9 Don't cause problems for someone with a weak conscience, just because you have the right to eat anything. 10 You know all this, and so it doesn't bother you to eat in the temple of an idol. But suppose a person with a weak conscience sees you and decides to eat food that has been offered to idols. 11 Then what you know has destroyed someone Christ died for. 12 When you sin by hurting a follower with a weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 So if I hurt one of the Lord's followers by what I eat, I will never eat meat as long as I live.
Ovikurya mbya punguhirwa Ovisenginina
1 Nambano otja konyama ndja punguhirwa oomukuru vovisenginina pe ri nai.
Matu tjiwa kutja eṱe atuhe tu nondjiviro. Ondjiviro i tjita kutja omundu e rihive, nungwari indwi orusuvero ru tunga ombongo. 2 Tji pena ngu ma tjangovasi eye u notjiṋa tji ma tjiwa, tjiri, eye ke nondjiviro omundu ndje sokukara na yo. 3 Nungwari omundu ngwa suvera Ndjambi eye u tjiukwa i Ndjambi.
4 Nu nambano otja kokurya onyama ndja punguhirwa oomukuru vovisenginina pe ri nai: Matu tjiwa kutja mukuru wotjisenginina eye katjiṋa kombanda yehi, nokutja kape na Ndjambi warwe posi na ingwi umwe. 5 Nandi pa kara imba mbu ku za “oomukuru”, kutja omeyuru poo okombanda yehi, nu nandarire kutja pena “oomukuru” ovengi “novahona” ovengi, 6 eṱe tu na Ndjambi umwe uriri: Tate mu mwa za oviṋa avihe, nu ngu twa utirwa; nu tu na Muhona umwe uriri, Jesus Kristus, mu mwa utwa oviṋa avihe, neṱe mu tu nomuinyo.
7 Nungwari ondjiviro ndji kai ri movandu avehe. Ovandu tjiva va iririra oomukuru vovisenginina tjinene, kutja nga ku ndinondi tji mave ri onyama, owo ve tjangovasi oyo ya punguhirwa omukuru wotjisenginina. Komuhingo mbwi omeritjiviro wawo womomutima nga vazewa aya ngundipara, otji maye kurungisirwa ko. 8 Novikurya kavi nakututjita kutja tu kare nomahakaeneno ngu ma engara ohee kuna Ndjambi; tji tu hi nakurya, katu notjiṋa tji matu pandjara; nu tji twa ri, katu notjiṋa tji matu toṋa.
9 Nungwari ṱakamiseye kutja omasa wongamburiro yeṋu aye ha rire ombutarisiro ku imba mbe ri ovingundi mongamburiro. 10 Nove ngu u nondjiviro ndji tji wa karira mondjuwo onḓere yoomukuru vovisenginina, nu omundu ngu nomeritjiviro womomutima omangundi e ku munu, indu otjiṋa hi katji nakumupa omasa kutja a rye onyama ndja punguhirwa oomukuru vovisenginina are? 11 Omundu otjingundi ngwi otji ma pandjara motjimbe tjondjiviro yoye ndji; neye hapo omukambure omukweṋu Kristus ngwa ṱira. 12 Nu tji mwa tjiti ouvi kovakambure ovakweṋu ovingundi momitima mokuvezeuparisa kutja ve tjite imbi mbi ve kambura kutja onavi okutjita, eṋe momuano mbwi mamu tjiti ourunde komurungu wa Kristus. 13 Novikurya, mbi me ri, tji mavi putarisa omukwetu, ami himee ri ko onyama rukwao, tjinga ambi hi nokuvanga okurira ombutarisiro komukwetu.
