Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

New American Standard Bible

What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

King James Version

What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?

International Standard Version

Am I suggesting that an offering made to idols means anything, or that an idol itself means anything?

A Conservative Version

What therefore do I say, that an idol is anything, or that a sacrifice to an idol is anything?

American Standard Version

What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Amplified

What do I mean then? That a thing offered to idols is anything [special or changed simply because it is offered], or that an idol is anything?

An Understandable Version

So, what am I saying? That an animal sacrificed to idols is [really] anything, or that an idol [itself] is anything?

Anderson New Testament

What, then, do I say? That an idol is any thing? or, that what is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?

Bible in Basic English

Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?

Common New Testament

What do I mean then? That a thing offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Daniel Mace New Testament

that the idol, or that what is offered in sacrifice to the idol, is a matter of consequence?

Darby Translation

What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Godbey New Testament

Then what do I say? that idolatry is anything? or that an idol is anything?

Goodspeed New Testament

What am I saying then? That there is any such thing as being offered to an idol, or any such thing as an idol?

John Wesley New Testament

What say I then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is any thing? or that an idol is any thing?

Julia Smith Translation

What do I say therefore? that an idol is any thing? or that what is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?

King James 2000

What do I say then? that the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Therefore, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Modern King James verseion

What then do I say? That the idol is anything, or that an idolatrous sacrifice is anything?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

What say I then? That the image is anything? Or that it which is offered to images is anything?

Moffatt New Testament

Do I imply, you ask, that 'food offered to an idol has any meaning, or that an idol itself means any thing'?

Montgomery New Testament

What then shall we say? that an offering to an idol is anything? or that an idol is really anything?

NET Bible

Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

New Heart English Bible

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Noyes New Testament

What do I say then? That what is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? Or that an idol is anything?

Sawyer New Testament

What then do I say? that an idol sacrifice is any thing, or that an idol is any thing?

The Emphasized Bible

What, then, am I saying? - that, an idol-sacrifice, is anything? or that, an idol, is anything?

Thomas Haweis New Testament

What do I say then? that an idol is any thing, or that which is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?

Twentieth Century New Testament

What do I mean? you ask. Than an offering made to an idol, or the idol itself, is anything?

Webster

What then do I say? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?

Weymouth New Testament

Do I mean that a thing sacrificed to an idol is what it claims to be, or that an idol is a real thing?

Williams New Testament

Then what do I mean? That the sacrifice to an idol is a reality, or that an idol itself is a reality? Of course not!

World English Bible

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Worrell New Testament

What, then, do I say? that an idol-sacrifice is anything? or that an idol is anything?

Worsley New Testament

What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that what is sacrificed to an idol is in itself any thing to stumble at?

Youngs Literal Translation

what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 344

say I
φημί 
Phemi 
Usage: 54

οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

the idol
εἴδωλον 
Eidolon 
Usage: 11

is
ἐστί 
Esti 
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585
Usage: 585

or
ἤ 
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
Usage: 199

εἰδωλόθυτον 
Eidolothuton 
Usage: 8

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Order At The Lord's Supper

18 Look at the people of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in what is offered on the altar? 19 What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20 No, but I do say that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to participate with demons!



Cross References

1 Corinthians 8:4

About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have provoked My jealousy
with their so-called gods;
they have enraged Me with their worthless idols.
So I will provoke their jealousy
with an inferior people;
I will enrage them with a foolish nation.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before Him;
they are considered by Him
as nothingness and emptiness.

Isaiah 41:29

Look, all of them are a delusion;
their works are nonexistent;
their images are wind and emptiness.

1 Corinthians 1:28

God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something,

1 Corinthians 3:7

So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

1 Corinthians 13:2

If I have the gift of prophecy
and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith
so that I can move mountains
but do not have love, I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool; you forced it on me. I should have been endorsed by you, since I am not in any way inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

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