1 Corinthians 8:8

WEB

⁸But 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.

KJV

⁸But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

BSB

⁸But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

FBV

⁸But food doesn't gain us God's approval! If we don't eat this food, we're not bad, and if we do eat this food, we're not good.

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Extra References

Romans 14:17

¹⁷for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 13:9

⁹Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

1 Corinthians 6:13

¹³“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

²⁰If you died with Christ from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, ²¹“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch” ²²(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? ²³These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body, but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.