1 Corinthians 10:19 “Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or…”

1 Corinthians 10:19

Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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?

American Standard Version

What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Geneva Bible 1599

What say I then? that the idole is any thing? or that that which is sacrificed to idoles, is any thing?

Darby Translation

What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?

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Cross references

“that the”

1 Corinthians 8:4 1 Corinthians 1:28 1 Corinthians 3:7 1 Corinthians 13:2 Deuteronomy 32:21 Isaiah 40:17

1 Corinthians 8:4 · BSB

So 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 1:28 · BSB

He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,

1 Corinthians 3:7 · BSB

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

1 Corinthians 13:2 · BSB

If 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 32:21 · BSB

They 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 understandin…

Isaiah 40:17 · BSB

All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?

20No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.

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