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1 Corinthians 10:19

New Century Version

I do not mean that the food sacrificed to an idol is important. I do not mean that an idol is anything at all.

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So this is what I say about eating meat sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is really nothing in the world, and we know there is only one God.

I may have the gift of prophecy. I may understand all the secret things of God and have all knowledge, and I may have faith so great I can move mountains. But even with all these things, if I do not have love, then I am nothing.

So the one who plants is not important, and the one who waters is not important. Only God, who makes things grow, is important.

He chose what the world thinks is unimportant and what the world looks down on and thinks is nothing in order to destroy what the world thinks is important.

Look, all these idols are false. They cannot do anything; they are worth nothing.

Compared to the Lord all the nations are worth nothing; to him they are less than nothing.

They used things that are not gods to make me jealous and worthless idols to make me angry. So I will use those who are not a nation to make them jealous; I will use a nation that does not understand to make them angry.

I have been talking like a fool, but you made me do it. You are the ones who should say good things about me. I am worth nothing, but those “great apostles” are not worth any more than I am!

But look at what this man Paul is doing. He has convinced and turned away many people in Ephesus and in almost all of Asia! He says the gods made by human hands are not real.

So, my dear friends, run away from the worship of idols.




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