1 Corinthians 10:19

What therefore do I say, that an idol is anything, or that a sacrifice to an idol is anything?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?

In Context

18Look at Israel according to flesh. Those who eat the sacrifices, are they not partakers of the altar?

20Rather, that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partakers of demons.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities, and I will move them to jealousy with a non-nation. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Isaiah 41:29Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

1 Corinthians 3:7So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but God who causes growth.

1 Corinthians 13:2And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 10:16-23

Against Countenancing Idolatry. ( a. d. 57.) 15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. 18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? 19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered… Read the whole commentary →

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