1 Corinthians 10:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ No, I imply that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ But 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ No, I am suggesting that what the pagans sacrifice they offer [in effect] to demons (to evil spiritual powers) and not to God [at all]. I do not want you to fellowship and be partners with diabolical spirits [by eating at their feasts]. [Deut. 32:17.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.

Common English Bible

²⁰ No, but this kind of sacrifice is sacrificed to demons and not to God. I don’t want you to be sharing in demons.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ But the things that the Gentiles immolate, they immolate to demons, and not to God. And I do not want you to become partakers with demons.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ 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.

1 Corinthians 10:20 Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:15

and had appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat-demons and for the calves that he had made.

Leviticus 17:7

so that they may no longer offer their sacrifices for goat-demons, to whom they prostitute themselves. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.

Matthew 4:9

and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing clearly the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Galatians 4:8

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and engage in sexual immorality.

Revelation 2:20

But I have this against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and is teaching and beguiling my servants to engage in sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 9:20

The rest of humankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands or give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.