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

However, not everyone has this knowledge. Some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food sacrificed to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled. Food will not bring us close to God.[a] We are not worse off if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.(A)

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  1. 8:8 Or bring us before (the judgment seat of) God