1 Corinthians 10:20

World English Bible (2000)

But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

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  • Rev 9:20 : 20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
  • Deut 32:16-17 : 16 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked him to anger with abominations. 17 They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, to gods that they didn't know, to new [gods] that came up of late, which your fathers didn't dread.
  • 2 Chr 11:15 : 15 and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.
  • Ps 106:37-39 : 37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. 38 They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood. 39 Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
  • Lev 17:7 : 7 They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.'

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    21 You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

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  • 1 Cor 10:18-19
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    18 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

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    7 Therefore don't be partakers with them.

  • Deut 32:17
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    17 They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, to gods that they didn't know, to new [gods] that came up of late, which your fathers didn't dread.

  • 1 Cor 5:9-11
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    9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

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  • 2 Cor 6:14-17
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    14 Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

    15 What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

    16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."

    17 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

  • Ps 106:37
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    37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

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  • 1 Cor 10:14-16
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    14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

    15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

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  • 1 Cor 10:27-28
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    27 But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

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

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    7 They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.'

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  • Gal 5:20
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  • Eph 5:11
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    11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

  • Exod 34:15
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  • Luke 11:18-19
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    14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

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    20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.

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    11 for he who welcomes him participates in his evil works.

  • Rom 14:20
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  • Eph 4:17
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    17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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    27 If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

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    27 neither give place to the devil.

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  • Gal 4:8
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    19 You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

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    17 But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.