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1 Corinthians 10:18 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 10 · verse 18
Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?1 Corinthians 10:18 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 10:18 in context
16The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
17For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
18Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
19What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
20But 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.
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Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- sacrificesthysiaa sacrifice, victimG2378 →
- partakerskoinōnosa partner, associate, comrade, companion, a partner, sharer, in anything, of the altar in…G2844 →
- Beholdblepōto see, discern, of the bodily eye, with the bodily eye to be possessed of sight, have…G991 →
- IsraelisraēlIsrael = " he shall be a prince of God" , the name given to the patriarch Jacob…G2474 →
- afterkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- fleshsarxflesh of both man and beasts, the body, the body of a man, used of natural or physical…G4561 →
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In this passage the apostle urges the general caution against idolatry, in the particular case of eating the heathen sacrifices as such, and out of any religious respect to the idol to whom they were sacrificed. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-22