1 Corinthians 10:19

what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? —

Young's Literal Translation

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

18See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?

20[no,] but that the things that the nations sacrifice — they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:21They have made Me zealous by 'no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by 'no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

Isaiah 41:29'Lo, all of them [are] vanity, Nought [are] their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'

1 Corinthians 3:7so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth — God;

1 Corinthians 13:2and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the 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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