1 Corinthians 10:20
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.
Additional Resources
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.
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- 1 Cor 10:21-222 verses87%
21 You 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.
22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?
- 1 Cor 10:18-192 verses79%
18 Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?
19 Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?
- 71%
7 Therefore do not be sharers with them,
- 71%
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.
- 1 Cor 5:9-113 verses70%
9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
10 In 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.
11 But 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 6:14-174 verses70%
14 Unequal 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?
15 And what agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share in common with an unbeliever?
16 And 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.”
17 Therefore“come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,
- 70%
37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.
- 70%
7 So 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.”
- 1 Cor 10:14-163 verses69%
14 Avoid Idol Feasts So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
15 I am speaking to thoughtful people. Consider what I say.
16 Is 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 10:27-282 verses69%
27 If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.
28 But if someone says to you,“This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience–
- 69%
10 We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.
- 68%
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.
- 1 Cor 12:1-22 verses68%
1 Spiritual Gifts With regard to spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.
2 You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.
- 68%
20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions,
- 68%
1 Timothy’s Ministry in the Later Times Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,
- 68%
11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
- 68%
15 Be 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;
- 68%
20 but 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.
- Luke 11:18-192 verses68%
18 So 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.
19 Now if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
- 67%
14 For 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.
- 67%
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.
- 67%
4 So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.
- 67%
20 Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord’s Supper.
- 67%
11 because the person who gives him a greeting shares in his evil deeds.
- 67%
20 Do 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.
- 67%
17 Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
- 67%
15 But some of them said,“By the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons, he casts out demons!”
- 67%
27 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they will be your judges.
- 67%
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
- 67%
22 Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!
- 67%
5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
- 67%
27 Do not give the devil an opportunity.
- 66%
12 They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.
- 66%
32 Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,
- 66%
31 Do not turn to the spirits of the dead and do not seek familiar spirits to become unclean by them. I am the LORD your God.
- 66%
8 Heirs of Promise Are Not to Return to Law Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.
- 66%
19 You believe that God is one; well and good. Even the demons believe that– and tremble with fear.
- 66%
17 The Lord’s Supper Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.