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1 Corinthians 8:7-8
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7 But this knowledge is not in everyone. But some, being accustomed until now to the idol, eat this food as food sacrificed to idols, and their conscience, because it[a] is weak, is defiled. 8 But food does not bring us close to God. For neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 8:7 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“is”) which is understood as causal
  2. 1 Corinthians 8:8 Some manuscripts omit “For” and have “Neither if we do not eat do we lack, nor if we do eat do we have more”
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