1 Corinthians 10:19-21

Warning Against Idolatry

19 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that f an idol is anything? 20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice g they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21 h You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and i the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and j the table of demons.

  1. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 8:4
    Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one.
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:17
    They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.
  3. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 6:15 - 16
    What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:38
    Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your protection!
  5. Cross References
    Isaiah 65:11
    But you who forsake the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny.
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