1 Corinthians 10:20

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 9:20 : 20 The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood– idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.
  • Deut 32:16-17 : 16 They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols. 17 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about.
  • 2 Chr 11:15 : 15 Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.
  • Ps 106:37-39 : 37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons. 38 They shed innocent blood– the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed. 39 They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.
  • Lev 17:7 : 7 So they must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons, acting like prostitutes by going after them. This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.

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    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.

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  • 1 Cor 10:18-19
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    18Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?

    19Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

  • Eph 5:7
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    7Therefore do not be sharers with them,

  • Deut 32:17
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    17They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about.

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

    10In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

    11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

  • 2 Cor 6:14-17
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    14Unequal Partners Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

    15And what agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share in common with an unbeliever?

    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.”

    17Therefore“come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,

  • Ps 106:37
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    37They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.

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    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.”

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

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  • 1 Cor 10:27-28
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    27If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.

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

  • Lev 17:7
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    7So they must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons, acting like prostitutes by going after them. This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.

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    1Spiritual Gifts With regard to spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.

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  • 1 Tim 4:1
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    11Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

  • 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 their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;

  • Acts 15:20
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    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.

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    18So if Satan too is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? I ask you this because you claim that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

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  • Rev 16:14
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    14For they are the spirits of the demons performing signs who go out to the kings of the earth to bring them together for the battle that will take place on the great day of God, the All-Powerful.

  • Rev 9:20
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    20The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood– idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.

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    20Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord’s Supper.

  • 2 John 1:11
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    11because the person who gives him a greeting shares in his evil deeds.

  • Rom 14:20
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    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.

  • Eph 4:17
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  • Luke 11:15
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    27And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they will be your judges.

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    5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

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