1 Corinthians 8:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his several ability; and he went on his journey.

Romans 14:17

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be stablished by grace; not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.