1 Corinthians 10:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

1 Corinthians 10:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 24:1
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Psalms 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Deuteronomy 10:14
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
Job 41:11
Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 23-33)

In this passage the apostle shows in what instances, notwithstanding, Christians might lawfully eat what had been sacrificed to idols. They must not eat it out of religious respect to the idol, nor go into his temple, and hold a feast there, upon what they knew was an idol-sacrifice; nor perhaps out of the temple, if they knew it was a feast held upon a sacrifice, but there were cases wherein they…

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

(vv. 26)

26. The ground on which such eating without questioning is justified is, the earth and all its contents (“the fulness thereof,” Psa 20:1; 50:12), including all meats, belong to the Lord, and are appointed for our use; and where conscience suggests no scruple, all are to be eaten (Ro 14:14, 20; 1Ti 4:4, 5; compare Ac 10:15).