KJV King James Version
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
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1 Corinthians 10:22
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
WEB World English Bible
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
ASV American Standard Version
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?
Surrounding context — 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?
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.
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.
22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s [wealth].
25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, [that] eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
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Deuteronomy 32:21They 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 to anger with a foolish nation.Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.Hebrews 10:31[It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.Ezekiel 22:14Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken [it], and will do [it].Exodus 34:14For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;Deuteronomy 4:24For the LORD thy God [is] a consuming fire, [even] a jealous God.Joshua 24:19And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he [is] an holy God; he [is] a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.Psalm 78:58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.Deuteronomy 6:15(For the LORD thy God [is] a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.Ecclesiastes 6:10That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it [is] man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.Job 40:9-14Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?Job 9:4[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened [himself] against him, and hath prospered?Isaiah 45:9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
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