1 Corinthians 10:19
What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
KJV
τί οὖν φημί; ὅτι εἰδωλόθυτόν τί ἐστιν; ἢ ὅτι εἴδωλόν τί ἐστιν;
Greek NT
Quid ergo ? dico quod idolis immolatum sit aliquid ? aut quod idolum, sit aliquid ?
Vulgate
What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
ASV
What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
εἰδωλόθυτον
eidolothuton
adjective · 10×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἴδωλον
eidolon
noun · 11×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
φημί
phemi
verb · 68×
ἤ
e
particle · 346×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: εἰδωλόθυτόν τί ἐστιν ἢ ὅτι εἴδωλόν , | WH/Treg/NIV: εἰδωλόθυτόν τί … ὅτι εἴδωλόν | RP: εἴδωλόν τί … ὅτι εἰδωλόθυτόν
- εἰδωλόθυτόν τί ἐστιν ἢ ὅτι εἴδωλόν , — SBLGNT
- εἰδωλόθυτόν τί … ὅτι εἴδωλόν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- εἴδωλόν τί … ὅτι εἰδωλόθυτόν — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 24.—How Hermes Openly Confessed the Error of His Forefathers, the Coming Destruction of Which He Nevertheless Bewailed. After a long interval, Hermes again comes back to the subject of the gods which men have made, saying as follows: “But enough on this subject. Let us return to man and to reason, that divine gift on account of which man has been called a rational anima…
Chapter 1.— Signs, Their Nature and Variety. 1. As when I was writing about things, I introduced the subject with a warning against attending to anything but what they are in themselves, even though they are signs of something else, so now, when I come in its turn to discuss the subject of signs, I lay down this direction, not to attend to what they are in themselves, but to th…
Q. Who are to come to the Lord's table? A. Those who are displeased with themselves because of their sins, but who nevertheless trust that their sins are pardoned and that their continuing weakness is covered by the suffering and death of Christ, and who also desire more and more to strengthen their faith and to lead a better life. Hypocrites and those who are unrepentant, howe…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:28 — And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
- 1Cor 3:7 — So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
- 1Cor 8:4 — As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
- 1Cor 8:4 — As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
- 1Cor 13:2 — And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
- Acts 19:26 — Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
- Deut 32:21 — They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them t
- Eph 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
- Gal 4:8 — Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
- Isa 40:17 — All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
- Isa 41:29 — Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
- Lev 26:1 — Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
- Ps 106:28 — They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
- Zech 11:17 — Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.