1 Corinthians 10:19

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol `is' nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.
  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They have made Me zealous by `no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by `no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 All the nations `are' as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 `Lo, all of them `are' vanity, Nought `are' their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'
  • 1 Cor 1:28 : 28 and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --
  • 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;

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  • 1 Cor 8:4-5
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    4Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol `is' nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

    5for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth -- as there are gods many and lords many --

  • 1 Cor 10:20-23
    4 verses
    79%

    20`no,' but that the things that the nations sacrifice -- they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.

    21Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;

    22do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

    23All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

  • 1 Cor 10:25-32
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    25Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

    26for the Lord's `is' the earth, and its fulness;

    27and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;

    28and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' -- do not eat, because of that one who shewed `it', and of the conscience, for the Lord's `is' the earth and its fulness:

    29and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why `is it' that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?

    30and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?

    31Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

    32become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

  • 1 Cor 10:18
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    18See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?

  • 1 Cor 10:14-16
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    72%

    14Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;

    15as to wise men I speak -- judge ye what I say:

    16The cup of the blessing that we bless -- is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? the bread that we break -- is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ?

  • 1 Cor 8:7-10
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    7but not in all men `is' the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat `it', and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

    8But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

    9but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

    10for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

  • Rom 14:20-21
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    20for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, `are' pure, but evil `is' to the man who is eating through stumbling.

    21Right `it is' not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to `do anything' in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

  • Lev 17:8
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    8`And unto them thou sayest: Any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners, who sojourneth in your midst, who causeth burnt-offering or sacrifice to ascend,

  • 1 Cor 12:2
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    2ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;

  • Acts 15:29
    68%

    29to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

  • 1 Cor 10:7
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    7Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

  • Acts 21:25
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    25`And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.'

  • 2 Cor 6:16
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    16and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,

  • Heb 13:10
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    10we have an altar, of which to eat they have no authority who the tabernacle are serving,

  • 1 Cor 8:1
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    1And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12and serve the idols, of which Jehovah said to them, `Ye do not do this thing;'

  • Lev 19:4
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    4`Ye do not turn unto the idols, and a molten god ye do not make to yourselves; I `am' Jehovah your God.

  • Acts 15:19-20
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    19wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,

    20but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

  • 1 Cor 9:13
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    13Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple -- of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar -- with the altar are partakers?

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

  • Ezek 20:32
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    32And that which is going up on your mind, It is not at all -- in that ye are saying: We will be as the nations, as the families of the lands, To serve wood and stone.

  • Rom 14:14
    66%

    14I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing `is' unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one `it is' unclean;

  • Exod 22:20
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    20`He who is sacrificing to a god, save to Jehovah alone, is devoted.

  • Ps 115:4
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    4Their idols `are' silver and gold, work of man's hands,

  • Ps 135:15
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    15The idols of the nations `are' silver and gold, Work of the hands of man.

  • Isa 44:17
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    17And its remnant for a god he hath made -- For his graven image, He falleth down to it, and worshippeth, And prayeth unto it, and he saith, `Deliver me, for my god thou `art'.'

  • Ezek 20:39
    66%

    39And ye, O house of Israel, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Each his idols -- go -- serve ye, And, afterwards, if ye are not hearkening to me, And My holy name ye do not pollute any more by your gifts, and by your idols.

  • Acts 7:41
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    41`And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands,

  • Isa 44:10
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    10Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?

  • Matt 23:19
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    19Fools and blind! for which `is' greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?

  • 1 John 5:21
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    21Little children, guard yourselves from the idols! Amen.

  • Jer 7:21
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    21Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Your burnt-offerings add to your sacrifices, And eat ye flesh.