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1 Corinthians 10:19

17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?

20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
KJV
What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
WEB
What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
ASV
What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
DARBY
What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
BLB
Then what do I say? That what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
ÅB
Hva mener jeg altså? at det er noe avguds-offer til? eller at det er noen avgud til?
OTB
Hva antyder jeg da? At mat ofret til avguder er noe, eller at en avgud er noe?
B1930
Hvad mener jeg altså? at det er noget avguds-offer til? eller at det er nogen avgud til?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Corinthians 8:4

    As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

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  • Isaiah 41:29

    Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

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  • 1 Corinthians 1:28

    And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

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  • Deuteronomy 32:21

    They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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  • 1 Corinthians 3:7

    So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

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  • 1 Corinthians 13:2

    And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

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  • Isaiah 40:17

    All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

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  • 2 Corinthians 12:11

    I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

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