1 Corinthians 10:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?”
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“Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?”
King James Version · Public Domain“What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Corinthians 10:19 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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