yet (A)for us there is one God, the Father, (B)of whom are all things, and we for Him; and (C)one Lord Jesus Christ, (D)through whom are all things, and (E)through whom we live.

However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, (F)with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is (G)defiled. But (H)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.

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yet for us there is but one God,(A) the Father,(B) from whom all things came(C) and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord,(D) Jesus Christ, through whom all things came(E) and through whom we live.

But not everyone possesses this knowledge.(F) Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak,(G) it is defiled. But food does not bring us near to God;(H) we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

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