1 Corinthians 10:19

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Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that“an idol in this world is nothing,” and that“there is no God but one.”
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 The Signs of an Apostle I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those“super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.
  • 1 Cor 1:28 : 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,
  • 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So neither the one who plants counts for anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.

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  • 1 Cor 8:4-5
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    4With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that“an idol in this world is nothing,” and that“there is no God but one.”

    5If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth(as there are many gods and many lords),

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

    20No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

    21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot take part in the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

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

    23Live to Glorify God“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial.“Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds others up.

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

    25Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

    26for the earth and its abundance are the Lord’s.

    27If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.

    28But if someone says to you,“This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience–

    29I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

    30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for the food that I give thanks for?

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

    32Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

  • 1 Cor 10:18
    75%

    18Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?

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

    14Avoid Idol Feasts So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

    15I am speaking to thoughtful people. Consider what I say.

    16Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

  • 1 Cor 8:7-10
    4 verses
    71%

    7But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.

    8Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

    9But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.

    10For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be“strengthened” to eat food offered to idols?

  • Rom 14:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

    21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

  • Lev 17:8
    69%

    8“You are to say to them:‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst, who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

  • 1 Cor 12:2
    68%

    2You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.

  • Acts 15:29
    68%

    29that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

  • 1 Cor 10:7
    68%

    7So 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%

    25But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided that they should avoid meat that has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality.”

  • 2 Cor 6:16
    67%

    16And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said,“I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

  • Heb 13:10
    67%

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

  • 1 Cor 8:1
    67%

    1Food Sacrificed to Idols With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that“we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    67%

    12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • Lev 19:4
    67%

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

  • Acts 15:19-20
    2 verses
    67%

    19“Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra difficulty for those among the Gentiles who are turning to God,

    20but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

  • 1 Cor 9:13
    67%

    13Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    66%

    13For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

  • Ezek 20:32
    66%

    32“‘What you plan will never happen. You say,“We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.”

  • Rom 14:14
    66%

    14I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.

  • Exod 22:20
    66%

    20“Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the LORD alone must be utterly destroyed.

  • Ps 115:4
    66%

    4Their idols are made of silver and gold– they are man-made.

  • Ps 135:15
    66%

    15The nations’ idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.

  • Isa 44:17
    66%

    17With the rest of it he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships it. He prays to it, saying,‘Rescue me, for you are my god!’

  • Ezek 20:39
    66%

    39“‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Each of you go and serve your idols, if you will not listen to me. But my holy name will not be profaned again by your sacrifices and your idols.

  • Acts 7:41
    66%

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

  • Isa 44:10
    66%

    10Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

  • Matt 23:19
    65%

    19You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

  • 1 John 5:21
    65%

    21Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

  • Jer 7:21
    65%

    21“The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says to the people of Judah:‘You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!