1 Corinthians 8:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
  • Col 2:20-23 : 20 If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders 21 Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands, 22 (Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men? 23 These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

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  • 1 Cor 8:7
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    7 Still, all men have not that knowledge: but some, being used till now to the image, are conscious that they are taking food which has been offered to the image; and because they are not strong in the faith, their minds are troubled.

  • 1 Cor 8:9-13
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    9 But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.

    10 For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?

    11 And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death.

    12 And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.

    13 For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.

  • Rom 14:19-23
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    19 So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.

    20 Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

    21 It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

    22 The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.

    23 But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

  • Rom 14:1-3
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    1 Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.

    2 One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.

    3 Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.

  • 1 Cor 8:1-4
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    1 Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.

    2 If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;

    3 But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

    4 So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

  • 1 Cor 10:27-29
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    27 If a Gentile makes a feast for you, and you are pleased to go as a guest, take whatever is put before you, without question of right or wrong.

    28 But if anyone says to you, This food has been used as an offering, do not take it, on account of him who said it, and on account of his sense of right and wrong:

    29 Right and wrong, I say, not for you, but for the other man; for the fact that I am free is not dependent on another man's sense of right or wrong.

  • Rom 14:13-17
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    13 Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

    14 I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.

    15 And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

    16 Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:

    17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

  • Rom 14:5-8
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    5 This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind.

    6 He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

    7 For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.

    8 As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

  • 1 Cor 10:25
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    25 Whatever meat may be had at the public market, take as food without question of right or wrong;

  • 1 Cor 6:12-13
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    12 I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

    13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

  • 1 Tim 4:3-4
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    3 Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

    4 Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:

  • 1 Cor 10:31-32
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    31 So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

    32 Give no cause of trouble to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God.

  • Rom 8:8
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    8 So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

  • Heb 13:9-10
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    9 Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

    10 We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.

  • 1 Tim 6:8
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    8 But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.

  • 2 Thess 3:8
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    8 And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

  • 1 Cor 11:31-32
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    31 But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.

    32 But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.

  • 1 Cor 11:29
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    29 For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.

  • 1 Cor 10:22-23
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    22 Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

    23 We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.

  • 2 Thess 3:10
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    10 For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.

  • Rom 8:12
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    12 So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20 And so that no man might be able to say anything against us in the business of this giving which has been put into our hands: