1 Corinthians 10:19 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁹ So, what am I saying? That an animal sacrificed to idols is [really] anything, or that an idol [itself] is anything?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is [intrinsically changed by the fact and amounts to] anything or that an idol itself is a [living] thing?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Common English Bible

¹⁹ What am I saying then? That food sacrificed to a false god is anything, or that a false god is anything?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ What is next? Should I say that what is immolated to idols is anything? Or that the idol is anything?

1 Corinthians 10:19 Cross References

Acts 19:26

And now you have seen and heard, not only here in Ephesus, but throughout almost the entire [province of] Asia, that this Paul has been convincing people, [even] to the point of turning many away [from idol worship]. [He is] saying that hand-made gods [like we make] are not real [gods at all].

1 Corinthians 1:28

And He chose what the world considers insignificant and contemptible, and [even] what it considers “nothing,” in order to nullify what appears to be something.

1 Corinthians 10:14

Therefore, my dearly loved ones, run away from idol worship.

1 Corinthians 13:2

And if I have the [spiritual] gift of prophecy, and can understand all [of God’s] secret purposes, and have all knowledge; and if I have all [the supernatural] faith necessary to relocate mountains [See Matt. 17:20], but do not have love [for people], I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 3:7

So then, it does not matter who plants or who waters, but [it is] God who matters, for He makes the seed grow.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Now concerning [the matter of] eating foods [once] offered as sacrifices to idols, we know that an idol is [really] nothing in the world [at all], and that there is only one God.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become foolish [i.e., by my boasting], but you made me do it [i.e., in order to vindicate myself] For I should have been commended by you [i.e., for my effective ministry there in Corinth], because I was not inferior in any way to those “super apostles” [See 11:5], even though I am nothing.