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# 1 Corinthians 8

1 Corinthians 8 is chapter 8 of 16 in the First Letter to the Corinthians. Here are all 13 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Though an idol be nothing, yet things offered up to idols are not to be eaten, for fear of scandal.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Corinthians 8 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but charity builds up.
2. But if anyone considers himself to know anything, he does not yet know in the way that he ought to know.
3. For if anyone loves God, he is known by him.
4. But as to the foods that are immolated to idols, we know that an idol in the world is nothing, and that no one is God, except One.
5. For although there are things that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (if one even considers there to be many gods and many lords)
6. yet we know that there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things are, and in whom we are, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and by whom we are.
7. But knowledge is not in everyone. For some persons, even now, with consent to an idol, eat what has been sacrificed to an idol. And their conscience, being infirm, becomes polluted.
8. Yet food does not commend us to God. For if we eat, we will not have more, and if we do not eat, we will not have less.
9. But be careful not to let your liberty become a cause of sin to those who are weak.
10. For if anyone sees someone with knowledge sitting down to eat in idolatry, will not his own conscience, being infirm, be emboldened to eat what has been sacrificed to idols?
11. And should an infirm brother perish by your knowledge, even though Christ died for him?
12. So when you sin in this way against the brothers, and you harm their weakened conscience, then you sin against Christ.
13. Because of this, if food leads my brother to sin, I will never eat meat, lest I lead my brother to sin.

## 1 Corinthians 8 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. De iis autem quæ idolis sacrificantur, scimus quia omnes scientiam habemus. Scientia inflat, caritas vero ædificat.
2. Si quis autem se existimat scire aliquid, nondum cognovit quemadmodum oporteat eum scire.
3. Si quis autem diligit Deum, hic cognitus est ab eo.
4. De escis autem quæ idolis immolantur, scimus quia nihil est idolum in mundo, et quod nullus est Deus, nisi unus.
5. Nam etsi sunt qui dicantur dii sive in cælo, sive in terra (siquidem sunt dii multi, et domini multi):
6. nobis tamen unus est Deus, Pater, ex quo omnia, et nos in illum: et unus Dominus Jesus Christus, per quem omnia, et nos per ipsum.
7. Sed non in omnibus est scientia. Quidam autem cum conscientia usque nunc idoli, quasi idolothytum manducant: et conscientia ipsorum cum sit infirma, polluitur.
8. Esca autem nos non commendat Deo. Neque enim si manducaverimus, abundabimus: neque si non manducaverimus, deficiemus.
9. Videte autem ne forte hæc licentia vestra offendiculum fiat infirmis.
10. Si enim quis viderit eum, qui habet scientiam, in idolio recumbentem: nonne conscientia ejus, cum sit infirma, ædificabitur ad manducandum idolothyta?
11. Et peribit infirmus in tua scientia, frater, propter quem Christus mortuus est?
12. Sic autem peccantes in fratres, et percutientes conscientiam eorum infirmam, in Christum peccatis.
13. Quapropter si esca scandalizat fratrem meum, non manducabo carnem in æternum, ne fratrem meum scandalizem.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2639: Prayer of Praise ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2285: Respect for the Dignity of Persons ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1789: To Choose in Accord With Conscience ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: Knowledge, without charity and humility, serveth only to puff persons up.
- Verse 5: Reputed for such among the heathens.
- Verse 13: That is, if my eating cause my brother to sin.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).