1 Corinthians 10:22
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 34:14for thou shall worship no other god. For LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 6:15for LORD thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God, lest the anger of LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
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.
Job 9:4[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
Psalms 78:58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who strives with his maker, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are thou making? or thy work, He has no hands?
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 →