1 Corinthians 10:19
What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
18See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no God; They have exasperated me with their vanities; And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people; With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.
Isaiah 41:29Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness.
1 Corinthians 3:7So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer; but God the giver of the increase.
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, but 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 →