◄ 1 Corinthians 10:20 ►
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Good News Translation
No! What I am saying is that what is sacrificed on pagan altars is offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be partners with demons.

New Revised Standard Version
No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

Contemporary English Version
No, I am not! This food is really sacrificed to demons and not to God. I don't want you to have anything to do with demons.

New American Bible
No, I mean that what they sacrifice, [they sacrifice] to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.

sacrifice.

Leviticus 17:7 And they shall no more sacrifice their victims to devils, with whom they have committed fornication. It shall be an ordinance for ever to them and to their posterity.

Deuteronomy 32:16,17 They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations. . . .

2 Chronicles 11:15 And he made to himself priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

Psalm 106:37-39 And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men, who were not slain by these plagues, did not do penance from the works of their hands, that they should not adore devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk:

Context
Flee from Idolatry
…19What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing? 20But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils. 21You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord and of the table of devils.…
Cross References
Leviticus 17:7
And they shall no more sacrifice their victims to devils, with whom they have committed fornication. It shall be an ordinance for ever to them and to their posterity.

Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.

Psalm 106:37
And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.

Matthew 4:9
And said to him: All these will I give thee, if falling down thou wilt adore me.

Galatians 4:8
But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them who, by nature, are not gods.

Revelation 2:14
But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat and to commit fornication.

Revelation 2:20
But I have against thee a few things: because thou sufferest the woman Jezabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication and to eat of things sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the men, who were not slain by these plagues, did not do penance from the works of their hands, that they should not adore devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk:

1 Corinthians 10:19
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