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I Corinthians 8:Verse 8

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

Romans 14:17Romans 14:17Hebrews 13:9Hebrews 13:91 Corinthians 6:13
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King James VersionPrimary
KJV

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

American Standard Version
ASV

But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

American King James Version
AKJV

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

KJV with Apocrypha
KJVA

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

Bible in Basic English
BBE

But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

Young's Literal Translation
YLT

But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

New Heart English Bible
NHEB

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

NHEB Messianic Edition
NHEBME

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

NHEB Jehovah Edition
NHEBJE

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

Darby Translation
Darby

But meat does not commend us toGod; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

Webster Bible
Webster

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

Geneva Bible 1599
Geneva1599

But meate maketh not vs acceptable to God, for neither if we eate, haue we the more: neither if we eate not, haue we the lesse.

Douay-Rheims
DRC

But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall we have the more: nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less.

Rotherham Bible
Rotherham

Food, indeed, will not commend us unto God,—neither, if we eat not, do we lack, nor, if we eat, do we abound.

Literal Translation
LITV

But food will not commend us to God. For neither if we eat do we excel, nor if we do not eat are we behind.

Modern King James
MKJV

But food does not commend us to God. For neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.

Updated King James
UKJV

But food commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

Lexham English Bible
LEB

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.

Catholic Public Domain
CPDV

Yet food does not commend us to God. For if we eat, we will not have more, and if we do not eat, we will not have less.

Berean Study Bible
BSB

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

Revised Webster
RWebster

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Wycliffe

Mete comendith vs not to God; for nether we schulen faile, if we eten not, nether if we eten, we schulen haue plente.

Noyes Translation (1869)
Noyes

But food will not recommend us to God; if we do not eat, we are not the worse; nor if we do eat, are we the better.

Anderson New Testament
Anderson

But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.

Twentieth Century NT
TCNT

What we eat, however, will not bring us nearer to God. We lose nothing by not eating this food, and we gain nothing by eating it.

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