"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

1 Corinthians 10:19 · KJV

“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

Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

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.

1 Corinthians 10 — Context

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.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 8:4

As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol {is} nothing in the world, and that {there is} none other God but one.

Isaiah 40:17

All nations before him {are} as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 41:29

Behold, they {are} all vanity; their works {are} nothing: their molten images {are} wind and confusion.

1 Corinthians 13:2

And though I have {the gift of} prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 1:28

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, {yea}, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have moved me to jealousy with {that which is} not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with {those which are} not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

1 Corinthians 3:7

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.