1 Corinthians 10:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰But 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 10:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Psalms 106:37-39
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, …
Deuteronomy 32:16-17
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. …
2 Corinthians 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
2 Chronicles 11:15
And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

Topics

Adultery Demons Disease Familiar Spirits Foreigner Gentiles Gods Groves

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-22)

In this passage the apostle urges the general caution against idolatry, in the particular case of eating the heathen sacrifices as such, and out of any religious respect to the idol to whom they were sacrificed. I. He prefaces his argument with an appeal to their own reason and judgment: “ I speak to wise men, judge you what I say, 1 Cor. 10:15. You are great pretenders to wisdom, to close reasoni…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

19-20. What say I then?--The inference might be drawn from the analogies of the Lord’s Supper and Jewish sacrifices, that an idol is really what the heathen thought it to be, a god, and that in eating idol-meats they had fellowship with the god. This verse guards against such an inference: “What would I say then? that a thing sacrificed to an idol is any real thing (in the sense that the heathen r…