1 Corinthians 8:8 Cross References - WPNT

⁸ But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better off, nor if we do not eat are we worse off.

¹⁷ because the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹³ Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

²⁰ Now then, since you died with Christ away from the basic principles of the world, why, as though still living in it, are you subjecting yourselves to regulations ²¹ —Don’t handle! Don’t taste! Don’t touch!— ²² (all of which result in corruption through overuse) according to the commands and teachings of men? ²³ Such things do indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and subservience and asceticism, but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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