1 Corinthians 8:8 - New Revised Standard Version

⁸ “Food will not bring us close to God.” We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Now food [itself] will not cause our acceptance by God nor commend us to Him. Eating [food offered to idols] gives us no advantage; neither do we come short or become any worse if we do not eat [it].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

Common English Bible

⁸ Food won’t bring us close to God. We’re not missing out if we don’t eat, and we don’t have any advantage if we do eat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

1 Corinthians 8:8 Cross References

Matthew 25:15

to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings; for it is well for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food, which have not benefited those who observe them.