1 Corinthians 10:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 6:24 : 24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
  • 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 Elijah approached all the people and said,“How long are you going to be paralyzed by indecision? If the LORD is the true God, then follow him, but if Baal is, follow him!” But the people did not say a word.
  • Isa 65:11 : 11 But as for you who abandon the LORD and forget about worshiping at my holy mountain, who prepare a feast for the god called‘Fortune,’ and fill up wine jugs for the god called‘Destiny’–
  • Deut 32:37-38 : 37 He will say,“Where are their gods, the rock in whom they sought security, 38 who ate the best of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise and help you; let them be your refuge!
  • 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 For 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?
  • 1 Cor 10:16 : 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?
  • 2 Cor 6:15-17 : 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,

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  • 1 Cor 10:15-20
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    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?

    17Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.

    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?

    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.

  • 1 Cor 10:22
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    22Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

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

  • 1 Cor 11:20-22
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    20Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord’s Supper.

    21For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

    22Do 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!

  • 1 Cor 11:26-29
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    26For every time you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

    27For this reason, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

    28A person should examine himself first, and in this way let him eat the bread and drink of the cup.

    29For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself.

  • 2 Cor 6:14-15
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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?

  • 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.

  • 1 Cor 10:7
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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.”

  • Mark 10:38-39
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    38But Jesus said to them,“You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?”

    39They said to him,“We are able.” Then Jesus said to them,“You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I experience,

  • Rev 14:10
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    10that person will also drink of the wine of God’s anger that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:10
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    10thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not 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 you will 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 he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

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

  • Jer 16:8
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    8“‘Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.

  • Luke 7:33
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    33For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say,‘He has a demon!’

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

  • 2 Cor 6:17
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    17Therefore“come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,

  • Gal 5:21
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    21envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

  • Luke 22:17
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    17Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he said,“Take this and divide it among yourselves.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Do 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!

  • 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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    17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • Mark 3:23
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    23So he called them and spoke to them in parables:“How can Satan cast out Satan?

  • 1 Cor 15:33
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    33Do not be deceived:“Bad company corrupts good morals.”

  • 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;

  • Luke 22:20
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    20And in the same way he took the cup after they had eaten, saying,“This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

  • Luke 11:18
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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.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

  • Matt 20:22
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    22Jesus answered,“You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?” They said to him,“We are able.”

  • Eph 5:11
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    11Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

  • Eph 4:27
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    27Do not give the devil an opportunity.

  • Jer 25:28
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    28If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, tell them that the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says‘You most certainly must drink it!