However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, (A)through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and (B)their conscience, being weak, is defiled. (C)Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

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However, 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. Now (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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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 8:8 Or before God
  2. 1 Corinthians 8:8 Lit lacking
  3. 1 Corinthians 8:8 Lit abounding