1 Corinthians 10:21

World English Bible (2000)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 6:24 : 24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.
  • 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him not a word.
  • Isa 65:11 : 11 "But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
  • Deut 32:37-38 : 37 He will say, "Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge; 38 Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection.
  • 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
  • 1 Cor 10:16 : 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it a sharing of the body of Christ?
  • 2 Cor 6:15-17 : 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.

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  • 1 Cor 10:15-20
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    15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

    16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it a sharing of the body of Christ?

    17 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

    18 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

    19 What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

    20 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.

  • 1 Cor 10:22
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    22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

  • Eph 5:7
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    7 Therefore don't be partakers with them.

  • 1 Cor 11:20-22
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    20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.

    21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

    22 What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

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

    27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

    28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

    29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.

  • 2 Cor 6:14-15
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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?

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

    10 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

    11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.

  • 1 Cor 10:7
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    7 Neither 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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    38 But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"

    39 They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;

  • Rev 14:10
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    10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

  • 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.

  • 1 Cor 6:10
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    10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

  • Luke 22:30
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    30 that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

  • Luke 16:13
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    13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."

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    24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.

  • Jer 16:8
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    8 You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

  • Luke 7:33
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    33 For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'

  • 2 John 1:11
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    11 for he who welcomes him participates in his evil works.

  • 2 Cor 6:17
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    17 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

  • Gal 5:21
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    21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

  • Luke 22:17
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    17 He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, "Take this, and share it among yourselves,

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

  • Matt 11:18
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    18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'

  • Prov 4:17
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    17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Mark 3:23
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    23 He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

  • 1 Cor 15:33
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    33 Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

  • Exod 34:15
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    15 "Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

  • Luke 22:20
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    20 Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

  • Luke 11:18
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    18 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

  • Matt 20:22
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    22 But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able."

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

  • Eph 4:27
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    27 neither give place to the devil.

  • Jer 25:28
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    28 It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: You shall surely drink.