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1 Corinthians 10:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons. "

1 Corinthians 10:20

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18 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

19 What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

20 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

21 You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

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1 Corinthians 10:1

"Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;"

1 Corinthians 10:2

"and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;"

1 Corinthians 10:3

"and all ate the same spiritual food;"

1 Corinthians 10:4

"and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ."

1 Corinthians 10:5

"However with most 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."

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