Catholic Public Domain Version
"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, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“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. ”
“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.”
“Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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)
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.
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.
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.
But be careful not to let your liberty become a cause of sin to those who are weak.
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?
And should an infirm brother perish by your knowledge, even though Christ died for him?