1 Corinthians 10:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
  • 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
  • Isa 65:11 : 11 But you are those who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who furnish drink offerings for Destiny.
  • Deut 32:37-38 : 37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
  • 1 Cor 8:10 : 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?
  • 1 Cor 10:16 : 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?
  • 2 Cor 6:15-17 : 15 And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has he who believes with an unbeliever? 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. 17 Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.

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  • 1 Cor 10:15-20
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    15I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.

    16The 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?

    17For although we are many, we are one bread and one body: for we all partake of that one bread.

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

    19What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?

    20But 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.

  • 1 Cor 10:22
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    22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

  • Eph 5:7
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    7Therefore do not be partakers with them.

  • 1 Cor 11:20-22
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    20When you come together therefore in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

    21For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others, and one is hungry and another is drunk.

    22What? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

  • 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 the body and blood of the Lord.

    28But let a person examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

    29For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the Lord’s body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.

  • 2 Cor 6:14-15
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    14Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

    15And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has he who believes with an unbeliever?

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    9I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

    10Yet not entirely with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the greedy, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

    11But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

  • 1 Cor 10:7
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    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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    38But Jesus said to them, You do not know what you ask: can you drink the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

    39And they said to him, We can. And Jesus said to them, You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism I am baptized with, you shall be baptized:

  • Rev 14:10
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    10He shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of his indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:10
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    10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

  • Luke 22:30
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    30That you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

  • Luke 16:13
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    13No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

  • Matt 6:24
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    24No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

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    8You shall not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

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

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    11For he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.

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    17Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.

  • Gal 5:21
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    21envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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    17And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and share it among yourselves:

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4Wherein they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

  • 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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    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Mark 3:23
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    23And he called them to him, and said to them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?

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    33Do not be deceived: Evil company corrupts good habits.

  • Exod 34:15
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    15Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice.

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    20Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

  • Luke 11:18
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    18If Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because you say I cast out demons through Beelzebub.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9Do not tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by snakes.

  • Matt 20:22
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    22But Jesus answered and said, You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They said to him, We are able.

  • Eph 5:11
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    11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

  • Eph 4:27
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    27Nor give place to the devil.

  • Jer 25:28
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    28And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; You shall certainly drink.