1 Corinthians 8:7-8

Amplified Bible

⁷However, not all [believers] have this knowledge. But some, being accustomed [throughout their lives] to [thinking of] the idol until now [as real and living], still eat food ^[a]as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and because their conscience is weak, it is defiled (guilty, ashamed). ⁸Now food will not commend us to God nor bring us close to Him; we are no worse off if we do not eat, nor are we better if we do eat.

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Footnotes

1 Corinthians 8:7 In Paul’s viewpoint, meat sold at the market place (even if it had been used in idol worship) was permissible food because a pagan sacrifice was meaningless, and the meat itself could not be contaminated by any such ritual (cf Mark 7:19). Some who had accepted Christ worried that they were violating their new faith if they ate any meat without knowing its origin first-hand.

1 Corinthians 8:7-8

New American Standard Bible

⁷However, not all people ^(A)have this knowledge; but ^(B)some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. ⁸Now ^(C)food will not bring us ^[a]close to God; we are neither ^[b]the worse if we do not eat, nor ^[c]the better if we do eat.

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1 Corinthians 8:8 Or before God
1 Corinthians 8:8 Lit lacking
1 Corinthians 8:8 Lit abounding

1 Corinthians 8:7-8

New International Version

⁷But not everyone possesses this knowledge.^(A) Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak,^(B) it is defiled. ⁸But food does not bring us near to God;^(C) we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

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