October 4, 2015

¹⁴ Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. ¹⁵ I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. ¹⁶ The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? ¹⁷ Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. ¹⁸ Consider the people of Israel:^[a] are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? ¹⁹ What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? ²⁰ No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. ²² Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

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Footnotes

1 Corinthians 10:18 Greek Consider Israel according to the flesh

Cross references

1 Corinthians 10:14 : ver. 7 1 Corinthians 10:15 : [ch. 8:1] 1 Corinthians 10:16 : ch. 11:25; Matt. 26:27, 28 1 Corinthians 10:16 : ch. 11:23, 24; Matt. 26:26; See Acts 2:42; 20:7 1 Corinthians 10:17 : ch. 12:12, 13, 20; Rom. 12:5; Eph. 4:4, 16; Col. 3:15 1 Corinthians 10:18 : Rom. 1:3; 4:1; 9:5; 2 Cor. 11:18 1 Corinthians 10:18 : Lev. 3:3; 7:15; [Heb. 13:10] 1 Corinthians 10:19 : See ch. 8:4 1 Corinthians 10:20 : Deut. 32:17 1 Corinthians 10:21 : [2 Cor. 6:15, 16] 1 Corinthians 10:21 : [Deut. 32:38] 1 Corinthians 10:21 : [Isa. 65:11] 1 Corinthians 10:22 : Deut. 32:21 1 Corinthians 10:22 : Eccles. 6:10; Ezek. 22:14

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