1 Corinthians 10:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?

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  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I behind the very chief 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 idols: and 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 nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
  • 1 Cor 1:28 : 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, God has chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are:
  • 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the growth.

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  • 1 Cor 8:4-5
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    4 Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

    5 For though there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

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

    20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.

    21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons: you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons.

    22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

    23 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial: all things are lawful for me, but not all things build up.

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

    25 Whatever is sold in the market, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake:

    26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.

    27 If any of those who do not believe invite you to a meal, and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake.

    28 But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," do not eat it for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience' sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:

    29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why should my liberty be judged by another man's conscience?

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

    31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

    32 Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

  • 1 Cor 10:18
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    18 Consider Israel after the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

  • 1 Cor 10:14-16
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    72%

    14 Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

    15 I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves 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?

  • 1 Cor 8:7-10
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    7 However, not everyone has this knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.

    8 But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better, nor if we do not eat are we worse.

    9 But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

    10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

  • Rom 14:20-21
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    69%

    20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.

    21 It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.

  • Lev 17:8
    69%

    8 And you shall say to them, Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, that offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

  • 1 Cor 12:2
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    2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these mute idols, even as you were led.

  • Acts 15:29
    68%

    29 that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from things 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 Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, except only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality.

  • 2 Cor 6:16
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    16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

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

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • Lev 19:4
    67%

    4 Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

  • Acts 15:19-20
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    19 Therefore, my judgment is that we should not trouble those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

    20 But that we write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.

  • 1 Cor 9:13
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    13 Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar?

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    66%

    13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will eat no meat as long as the world stands, lest I make my brother stumble.

  • Ezek 20:32
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    32 And what comes into your mind shall not happen, that you say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

  • Rom 14:14
    66%

    14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

  • Exod 22:20
    66%

    20 He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.

  • Ps 115:4
    66%

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

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

  • Isa 44:17
    66%

    17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his carved image: he falls down to it, and worships it, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for you are my god.

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

  • Acts 7:41
    66%

    41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

  • Isa 44:10
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    10 Who has formed a god, or cast a carved image that is profitable for nothing?

  • Matt 23:19
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    19 Fools and blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

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

  • Jer 7:21
    65%

    21 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.