11 translations · Greek

1 Corinthians 10:31

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

World English Bible

1 Corinthians 10:31 in 11 translations

WEB World English Bible
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
KJV King James Version
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
ASV American Standard Version
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
LSV Literal Standard Version
Whether, then, you eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;
FBV Free Bible Version
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, make sure to do everything to the glory of God.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;
DBY Darby Translation
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God's glory.
WBT Webster’s Bible
Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of God.

The Greek words

Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.

Word Transliteration English (BSB) Strong’s
Εἴτε Eite whether G1535 εἴτε whether
οὖν oun So G3767 οὖν therefore/then
ἐσθίετε esthiete you eat G2068 ἐσθίω to eat
εἴτε eite or G1535 εἴτε whether
πίνετε pinete drink G4095 πίνω to drink
εἴτε eite or G1535 εἴτε whether
τι ti whatever G5100 τις one
ποιεῖτε poieite you do G4160 ποιέω to do/make: do
πάντα panta it all G3956 πᾶς all
εἰς eis to the G1519 εἰς toward
δόξαν doxan glory G1391 δόξα glory
Θεοῦ Theou of God G2316 θεός God
ποιεῖτε poieite do G4160 ποιέω to do/make: do
  • Colossians 3:17

    Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

  • Colossians 3:23

    And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

  • 1 Peter 4:11

    If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

  • Deuteronomy 12:7

    There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

  • Deuteronomy 12:18

    but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.

  • Zechariah 7:5–6

    “Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me? When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

  • Deuteronomy 12:12

    You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

  • Luke 11:41

    But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

  • Nehemiah 8:16–18

    So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate. All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters, and lived in the booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness. Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

  • 1 Corinthians 7:34

    There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.

In context

29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for something I give thanks for?

31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

32 Give no occasion for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

Read all of 1 Corinthians 10 in the World English Bible.

Edition and source notes

Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.

Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.

The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.

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