1 Corinthians 10:22

If you participate in honoring demons in that way, you will certainly make the Lord very angry [RHQ]! ◄Remember that you are certainly not stronger than he is./Do you think that you are stronger than he is?► [RHQ] Certainly not, so you will not escape his punishing you if you honor demons in that way!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

In Context

21When you drink the grape juice/wine in [MTY] the cup at the Lord’s Supper, you cannot participate in the blessings that the Lord Jesus brought to us and at the same time drink the wine in the [MTY] cup that people offer to demons! When you eat at the Lord’s table, you cannot participate in the blessings the Lord provided [MTY] when he died for us and at the same time participate in the things that represent demons by eating food that has been sacrificed to idols

23Some people say, “ God permits believers to do anything.” But I say that not everything that people do benefits those who do it! Yes, some people say, “God permits believers to do all things.” But not everything that people do helps them to become spiritually mature.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:14You must worship only me, and not worship any other god, because I, Yahweh, cannot endure any rivals.

Deuteronomy 6:15Yahweh our God, who lives among you, ◄will not accept/will punish► people who worship anyone or anything else. So if you worship any other god, Yahweh will be very angry with you, and he will get rid of you completely.

Deuteronomy 32:21They made me very angry because of their worshiping idols, which are not really gods; they have caused me to be jealous [MET] because I want them to worship only me. So now, in order to cause them to become jealous, I will send to attack them an army of a nation of worthless and foolish people.

Job 9:4God is very wise [IDM] and very powerful; no one who has tried to challenge God has been able to win.

Psalms 78:58Because they worshiped carved images of their gods on the tops of hills, they caused God to become angry [DOU].

Isaiah 45:9Terrible things will happen to those who argue with me, the one who created them. They are like [MET] a clay pot and I am like the one who made it; so they certainly cannot [RHQ] criticize me. A lump of clay certainly cannot [RHQ] argue with the one who shapes it to form a pot, saying, ‘Why are you making me like this?’ The pot cannot say ‘ You have no skill, because what you made has no handles!’

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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