1 Corinthians 10:19

World English Bible (2000)

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They 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.
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
  • 1 Cor 1:28 : 28 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
  • 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

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  • 1 Cor 8:4-5
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    4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

    5For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"

  • 1 Cor 10:20-23
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    20But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

    21You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

    22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

    23"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.

  • 1 Cor 10:25-32
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    25Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

    26for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."

    27But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

    28But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."

    29Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

    30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?

    31Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

    32Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

  • 1 Cor 10:18
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    18Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

  • 1 Cor 10:14-16
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    14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

    15I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

    16The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it a sharing of the body of Christ?

  • 1 Cor 8:7-10
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    7However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

    8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

    9But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

    10For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

  • Rom 14:20-21
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    20Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

    21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

  • Lev 17:8
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    8"You shall say to them, 'Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

  • 1 Cor 12:2
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    2You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

  • Acts 15:29
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    29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."

  • 1 Cor 10:7
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    7Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

  • Acts 21:25
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    25But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."

  • 2 Cor 6:16
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    16What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."

  • Heb 13:10
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    10We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

  • 1 Cor 8:1
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    1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

  • Lev 19:4
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    4"'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Acts 15:19-20
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    19"Therefore my judgment is that we don't trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

    20but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

  • 1 Cor 9:13
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    13Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

  • Ezek 20:32
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    32and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

  • Rom 14:14
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    14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

  • Exod 22:20
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    20"He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.

  • Ps 115:4
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    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Ps 135:15
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    15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Isa 44:17
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    17The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, "Deliver me; for you are my god!"

  • Ezek 20:39
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    39As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go, serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.

  • Acts 7:41
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    41They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

  • Isa 44:10
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    10Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

  • Matt 23:19
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    19You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

  • 1 John 5:21
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    21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

  • Jer 7:21
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    21Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.