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1 Corinthians 10:19
1 Corinthians 10:19 is verse 19 of 1 Corinthians chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
King James Version
What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
World English Bible
What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
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1 Corinthians 10:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible
17 Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.
18 Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?
19 Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Corinthians 1:28He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,
1 Corinthians 3:7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
1 Corinthians 8:4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
1 Corinthians 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Deuteronomy 32:21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
Isaiah 40:17All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
Isaiah 41:29See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.