World English Bible
1 Corinthians 10:20
“But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have fellowship with demons.”
Verse in context — 1 Corinthians 10
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Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
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What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
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But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have fellowship with demons.
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You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
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Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
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