1 Corinthians 10:19
Good News Translation
Do I imply, then, that an idol or the food offered to it really amounts to anything?

New Revised Standard Version
What do I imply then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Contemporary English Version
Am I saying that either the idols or the food sacrificed to them is anything at all?

New American Bible
So what am I saying? That meat sacrificed to idols is anything? Or that an idol is anything?

Douay-Rheims Bible
What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing?

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1 Corinthians 1:28 And the base things of the world and the things that are contemptible, hath God chosen: and things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are:

1 Corinthians 3:7 Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.

1 Corinthians 8:4 But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.

1 Corinthians 13:2 And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

Deuteronomy 32:21 They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.

Isaiah 40:17 All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 41:29 Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

2 Corinthians 12:11 I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.

Context
Flee from Idolatry
18Behold Israel according to the flesh. Are not they that eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? 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.…
Cross References
Acts 19:26
And you see and hear that this Paul, by persuasion hath drawn away a great multitude, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying: they are not gods which are made by hands.

1 Corinthians 8:4
But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.

1 Corinthians 10:14
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols.

1 Corinthians 10:18
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