1 Corinthians 10:22
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
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Cross References
Exodus 34:14for you shall worship no other god; for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 6:15for the LORD your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you 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. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Job 9:4God 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 engraved images.
Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your 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 →