1 Corinthians 10:19

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

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  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 So then, concerning eating food sacrificed to idols: we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and there is no God but one.
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not 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, because I am in no way inferior to the 'super-apostles,' even though I am nothing.
  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They made Me jealous with something that is not God; they provoked Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a nation; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 Before Him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by Him as worthless and less than nothing.
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, all of them are worthless; their works are nothing; their metal idols are wind and emptiness.
  • 1 Cor 1:28 : 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are,
  • 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 8:4-5
    2 verses
    79%

    4 So then, concerning eating food sacrificed to idols: we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and there is no God but one.

    5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—just as there are many 'gods' and many 'lords'—

  • 1 Cor 10:20-23
    4 verses
    79%

    20 No, but what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons.

    21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

    22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He is?

    23 Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible, but not everything builds up.

  • 1 Cor 10:25-32
    8 verses
    76%

    25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience.

    26 For the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it.

    27 If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is placed before you without raising questions of conscience.

    28 But if someone says to you, 'This has been offered in sacrifice,' then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience.

    29 I do not mean your own conscience, but that of the other person's. For why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?

    30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of what I give thanks for?

    31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

    32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks, or the church of God.

  • 1 Cor 10:18
    75%

    18 Consider the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?

  • 1 Cor 10:14-16
    3 verses
    72%

    14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

    15 I speak to wise people; judge for yourselves what I say.

    16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?

  • 1 Cor 8:7-10
    4 verses
    71%

    7 However, not everyone knows this. Some, being accustomed to idols until now, eat it as if it were truly food offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.

    8 Food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

    9 But be careful that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

    10 For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won’t their weak conscience be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols?

  • Rom 14:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things are indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

    21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother or sister to stumble, to be offended, or to be weakened.

  • Lev 17:8
    69%

    8 Say to them: Anyone from the house of Israel or any foreigner living among them who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice

  • 1 Cor 12:2
    68%

    2 You know that when you were Gentiles, you were led to speechless idols, however you were led.

  • Acts 15:29
    68%

    29 that you abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

  • 1 Cor 10:7
    68%

    7 Do not 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
    68%

    25 As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.

  • 2 Cor 6:16
    67%

    16 What agreement can there be between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: 'I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.'

  • Heb 13:10
    67%

    10 We have an altar from which those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat.

  • 1 Cor 8:1
    67%

    1 Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    67%

    12 They served idols, about which the Lord had said to them, 'You shall not do this thing.'

  • Lev 19:4
    67%

    4 Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.

  • Acts 15:19-20
    2 verses
    67%

    19 Therefore, my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who are turning to God.

    20 Instead, we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, sexual immorality, meat that has been strangled, and blood.

  • 1 Cor 9:13
    67%

    13 Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar?

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    66%

    13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

  • Ezek 20:32
    66%

    32 What you have in mind will never happen. You say, 'We will be like the nations, like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone.'

  • Rom 14:14
    66%

    14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.

  • Exod 22:20
    66%

    20 You must not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

  • Ps 115:4
    66%

    4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • Ps 135:15
    66%

    15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • Isa 44:17
    66%

    17 From the rest he makes a god, his idol, and bows down to it. He worships it and prays to it, saying, 'Save me, for you are my god.'

  • Ezek 20:39
    66%

    39 As for you, house of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you! But afterward, you will surely listen to me and no longer profane my holy name with your gifts and idols.

  • Acts 7:41
    66%

    41 At that time, they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

  • Isa 44:10
    66%

    10 Who fashions a god or casts an idol that can profit nothing?

  • Matt 23:19
    65%

    19 You fools and blind! Which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

  • 1 John 5:21
    65%

    21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

  • Jer 7:21
    65%

    21 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!