1 Corinthians 8:8
“But meate commendeth vs not to God: for neither if we eate, are we the better: neither if wee eate not, are we the worse.”
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1 Corinthians 8:8 Context
6But to vs there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him, and one Lord Iesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. 7Howbeit there is not in euerie man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idole vnto this houre, eate it as a thing offred vnto an idole, and their conscience being weake, is defiled. 8But meate commendeth vs not to God: for neither if we eate, are we the better: neither if wee eate not, are we the worse. 9But take heed lest by any meanes, this libertie of yours become a stumbling blocke to them that are weake. 10For if any man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at meat in the idols temple: shall not the conscience of him which is weake, be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols?
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Other Translations for 1 Corinthians 8:8
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.
- King James Version
But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
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.
- American Standard Version (1901)
But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
- Basic English Bible
But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.
- Darby Bible
But food commendeth us not to God: for neither if we eat, are we the better; neither if we eat not, are we the worse.
- Webster's Bible
It is true that a particular kind of food will not bring us into God's presence; we are neither inferior to others if we abstain from it, nor superior to them if we eat it.
- Weymouth Bible
But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
- World English Bible
Mete comendith vs not to God; for nether we schulen faile, if we eten not, nether if we eten, we schulen haue plente.
- Wycliffe Bible
But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 Corinthians 8:8
8:8 But meat commendeth us not to God - Neither by eating, nor by refraining from it. Eating and not eating are in themselves things merely indifferent.