1 Corinthians 8:8 - Tree of Life Version

⁸ But food will not bring us before God. We are no worse off if we do not eat and no better off if we do eat.

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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.

1 Corinthians 8:8 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 25:15

To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.

Romans 14:17

for the kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking, but righteousness and shalom and joy in the Ruach ha-Kodesh.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food”—but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace—not by foods that have not benefited those occupied by them.