1 Corinthians 10:19 — Meaning and Application

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

1 Corinthians 10:19

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

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?

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.

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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1 Corinthians 10:1

"Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;"

1 Corinthians 10:2

"And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;"

1 Corinthians 10:3

"And did all eat the same spiritual meat;"

1 Corinthians 10:4

"And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. {followed...: or, went with them}"

1 Corinthians 10:5

"But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness."

1 Corinthians 10:6

"Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. {our...: Gr. our figures}"

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