1 Corinthians 10:18

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“Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?”

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BSBPD

“Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that eat the sacrifices communion with the altar?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Corinthians 10:18 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 3:3From the peace offering he is to bring an offering made by fire to the LORD: the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them,
  2. Leviticus 3:11Then the priest is to burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
  3. Leviticus 7:6Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
  4. Leviticus 7:11Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD:
  5. 1 Samuel 2:13or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
  6. 1 Samuel 9:12“Yes, he is ahead of you,” they answered. “Hurry now, for today he has come to the city because the people have a sacrifice on the high place.
  7. Romans 1:3regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,
  8. Romans 4:1What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has discovered?
  9. Romans 4:12And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
  10. Romans 9:3For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
  11. 1 Corinthians 9:13Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?
  12. 2 Corinthians 11:18Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.
  13. Galatians 6:16Peace and mercy to all who walk by this rule, even to the Israel of God.
  14. Ephesians 2:11Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
  15. Philippians 3:3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—

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