Food Sacrificed to Idols
1 Corinthians 8:8
In 9 translations
- 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.
- 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.
- WEB
- But 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.
- 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.
- LSV
- But food does not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;
- 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;
- DBY
- But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.Elohim
- 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.
- GNV
- 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.
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Where the editions differ
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read παραστήσει (“will commend”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read παρίστησιν (“does commend”).
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read περισσεύομεν.¶ (“have we an advantage”); Tregelles read περισσεύομεθα (“have we an advantage”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (4)
- In STEPBible’s comparison, SBLGNT (2010), Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include γὰρ (“for”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
- Word order: Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place μὴ elsewhere in this verse.
- Word order: Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place ὑστερούμεθα elsewhere in this verse.
- Word order: Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place περισσεύομεν.¶ elsewhere in this verse.
SBLGNT apparatus (2)
A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.
- SBLGNT: παραστήσει. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read παραστήσει; Robinson–Pierpont read παρίστησιν.
- SBLGNT: γὰρ ἐὰν φάγωμεν, περισσεύομεν, οὔτε ἐὰν μὴ φάγωμεν, ὑστερούμεθα. Robinson–Pierpont read γὰρ ἐὰν φάγωμεν, περισσεύομεν, οὔτε ἐὰν μὴ φάγωμεν, ὑστερούμεθα; Westcott and Hort (1881), Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἐὰν μὴ φάγωμεν, ὑστερούμεθα, οὔτε ἐὰν φάγωμεν, περισσεύομεν; Tregelles read ἐὰν μὴ φάγωμεν, ὑστερούμεθα, οὔτε ἐὰν φάγωμεν, περισσεύομεθα.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- βρῶμα δὲ ἡμᾶς οὐ παραστήσει τῷ θεῷ· οὔτε γὰρ ἐὰν φάγωμεν, περισσεύομεν, οὔτε ἐὰν μὴ φάγωμεν, ὑστερούμεθα.
- RP2018
- Βρῶμα δὲ ἡμᾶς οὐ παρίστησιν τῷ θεῷ· οὔτε γὰρ ἐὰν φάγωμεν περισσεύομεν, οὔτε ἐὰν μὴ φάγωμεν ὑστερούμεθα.
- TR-Boyd
- Βρῶμα δὲ ἡμᾶς οὐ παρίστησι τῷ Θεῷ· οὔτε γὰρ ἐὰν φάγωμεν περισσεύομεν, οὔτε ἐὰν μὴ φάγωμεν ὑστερούμεθα.
- SCR1894
- βρωμα δε ημας ου παριστησιν τω θεω ουτε γαρ εαν φαγωμεν περισσευομεν ουτε εαν μη φαγωμεν υστερουμεθα
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
ExpediencyEvilCommendFraternityGnosticismOffence; OffendJude, the Epistle ofConscienceDrunkennessPrudence
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Cross-references most cited first
- Romans 14:17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- Hebrews 13:9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.
- 1 Corinthians 6:13“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
- Colossians 2:20–23If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations: “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”? These will all perish…
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