1 Corinthians 10:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or {G3754} that an idol is anything?

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Referenced Verses

1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no {G2087} God but {G3361} one.
1 Cor 13:2 : 2 And 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 have not love, I am nothing.
2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I am become foolish: {G2744} ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though {G2532} 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: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Isa 40:17 : 17 All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
1 Cor 1:28 : 28 and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, [yea] and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:
1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

1 Cor 8:4-5
2 verses
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4Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no {G2087} God but {G3361} one.
5For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;
1 Cor 10:20-23
4 verses
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20But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.
21Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot 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?
23All things are lawful; {G3427} but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; {G3427} but not all things edify.
1 Cor 10:25-32
8 verses
76%
25Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake,
26for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
27If one of them that believe not biddeth you [to a feast], and ye are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake.
28But if any man say unto you, This hath been offered in sacrifice, {G1494} eat not, for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake:
29conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other's; for {G2443} why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
30{G1161} If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
31Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
32Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:
1 Cor 10:18
75%
18Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that eat the sacrifices communion with the altar?
1 Cor 10:14-16
3 verses
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14Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
15I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
16The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ?
1 Cor 8:7-10
4 verses
71%
7Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
8But food will not commend us to God: {G3777} neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.
10For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat {G1519} things sacrificed to idols?
Rom 14:20-21
2 verses
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20Overthrow not for meat's sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
21It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [to do anything] whereby {G3739} thy brother stumbleth.
Lev 17:8
69%
8And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that offereth a burnt-offering or sacrifice,
1 Cor 12:2
68%
2Ye know that when ye were Gentiles [ye were] led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever {G302} ye might led.
Acts 15:29
68%
29that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.
1 Cor 10:7
68%
7Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Acts 21:25
68%
25But as touching the Gentiles that have believed, we wrote, giving judgment that they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.
2 Cor 6:16
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16And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we 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 shall be my people.
Heb 13:10
67%
10We have an altar, whereof {G1537} they have no right to eat that serve the tabernacle.
1 Cor 8:1
67%
1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
2 Kgs 17:12
67%
12and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
Lev 19:4
67%
4Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.
Acts 15:19-20
2 verses
67%
19Wherefore my judgment is, that we trouble not them that from among the Gentiles turn to God;
20but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
1 Cor 9:13
67%
13Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?
1 Cor 8:13
66%
13Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat {G3756} no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
Ezek 20:32
66%
32and that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, in that ye say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
Rom 14:14
66%
14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Exod 22:20
66%
20He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto Jehovah 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
66%
15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
Isa 44:17
66%
17And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
Ezek 20:39
66%
39As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Go ye, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me; but my holy name shall ye no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.
Acts 7:41
66%
41And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
Isa 44:10
66%
10Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Matt 23:19
65%
19Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
1 John 5:21
65%
21[My] little children, guard yourselves from idols. amen.
Jer 7:21
65%
21Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.