1 Corinthians 10:21

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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.

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  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
  • 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal is God, follow him." But the people said nothing.
  • Isa 65:11 : 11 But as for you who abandon the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of wine for Destiny,
  • Deut 32:37-38 : 37 And He will say: 'Where are their gods? The rock they sought refuge in? 38 The ones who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your shelter!
  • 1 Cor 8:10 : 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?
  • 1 Cor 10:16 : 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?
  • 2 Cor 6:15-17 : 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 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.' 17 Therefore, 'Come out from among them and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.'

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  • 1 Cor 10:15-20
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    87%

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

    16The 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?

    17Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.

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

    19What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or that food sacrificed to idols is anything?

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

  • 1 Cor 10:22
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    22Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He is?

  • Eph 5:7
    73%

    7Therefore, do not be partners with them.

  • 1 Cor 11:20-22
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    20When you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper that you eat.

    21For when you eat, each one takes his own supper ahead of others. One goes hungry, and another gets drunk.

    22Don't you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Shall I praise you? I will certainly not praise you in this matter.

  • 1 Cor 11:26-29
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    26For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.

    27Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.

    28Let a person examine himself, and in this way let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

    29For the one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

  • 2 Cor 6:14-15
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    14Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

    15What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

  • 1 Cor 5:9-11
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    9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

    10I did not at all mean the sexually immoral people of this world, or the greedy, or swindlers, or idolaters. In that case, you would have to leave the world.

    11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler. With such a person, do not even eat.

  • 1 Cor 10:7
    70%

    7Do 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.'

  • Mark 10:38-39
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    38Jesus said to them, 'You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?'

    39'We can,' they answered. Jesus said to them, 'You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with,

  • Rev 14:10
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    10they too will drink the wine of God's wrath, which has been poured full strength into the cup of His anger. They will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:10
    68%

    10nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

  • Luke 22:30
    68%

    30so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

  • Luke 16:13
    68%

    13No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

  • Matt 6:24
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    24No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

  • Jer 16:8
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    8Do not enter a house where feasting is taking place to sit with them, to eat and drink.

  • Luke 7:33
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    33'For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, "He has a demon!"'

  • 2 John 1:11
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    11For the one who greets him shares in his wicked works.

  • 2 Cor 6:17
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    17Therefore, 'Come out from among them and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.'

  • Gal 5:21
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    21envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

  • Luke 22:17
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    17He took a cup, gave thanks, and said, "Take this and share it among yourselves."

  • 1 Pet 4:4
    67%

    4They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
    67%

    15Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

  • Matt 11:18
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    18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

  • Prov 4:17
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    17They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

  • Mark 3:23
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    23So Jesus called them over to Him and began to speak to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

  • 1 Cor 15:33
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    33Do not be deceived: 'Bad company corrupts good morals.'

  • Exod 34:15
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    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices.

  • Luke 22:20
    67%

    20In the same way, after supper, he took the cup and said, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.'

  • Luke 11:18
    66%

    18If Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say I drive out demons by Beelzebul.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
    66%

    17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
    66%

    9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and they were killed by snakes.

  • Matt 20:22
    66%

    22Jesus answered, 'You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?' They said to him, 'We are able.'

  • Eph 5:11
    66%

    11Do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

  • Eph 4:27
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    27and do not give the devil an opportunity.

  • Jer 25:28
    66%

    28If they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, tell them, 'This is what the LORD of Hosts says: You must drink it!'