Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Do we emulate the Lord? are we stronger than he?

New American Standard Bible

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

King James Version

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Holman Bible

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

International Standard Version

or you'll provoke the Lord to jealousy, won't you? Are we stronger than he is?

A Conservative Version

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

American Standard Version

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Amplified

Do we [really] provoke the Lord to jealousy [when we eat food sacrificed to handmade “gods” at pagan feasts]? Are we [spiritually] stronger than He? [Certainly not! He knows that the idols are nothing. But we deeply offend Him.]

An Understandable Version

Or, are we [trying to] make the Lord jealous [by doing this]? [Do we think] we are stronger that He is?

Anderson New Testament

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Bible in Basic English

Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

Common New Testament

Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Daniel Mace New Testament

Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Darby Translation

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Godbey New Testament

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? whether are we stronger than he?

Goodspeed New Testament

Or are we trying to arouse the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he is?

John Wesley New Testament

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

King James 2000

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he [is, are we]?

Modern King James verseion

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Either, shall we provoke the Lord? Or are we stronger than he?

Moffatt New Testament

What! do we intend to rouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he is?

Montgomery New Testament

What! would we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

NET Bible

Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

New Heart English Bible

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Noyes New Testament

Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Sawyer New Testament

Do we provoke the Lord to anger? Are we stronger than he?

The Emphasized Bible

Or are we to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we mightier than he?

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Twentieth Century New Testament

Or 'are we to rouse the jealousy of the Lord'? Are we stronger than he?

Webster

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Weymouth New Testament

Or are we actually arousing the Lord to jealousy. Are we stronger than He is?

Williams New Testament

Or, are we trying to incite the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

World English Bible

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Worrell New Testament

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

Worsley New Testament

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

Youngs Literal Translation

do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Do we provoke
παραζηλόω 
Parazeloo 
Usage: 4

the Lord
κύριος 
Kurios 
Usage: 643

παραζηλόω 
Parazeloo 
Usage: 4

are we
ἐσμέν 
Esmen 
Usage: 50

ἰσχυρός 
Ischuros 
Usage: 20

Verse Info

Context Readings

Order At The Lord's Supper

21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and the table of demons. 22 Do we emulate the Lord? are we stronger than he? 23 All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all things are lawful to me, but all build not the house.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:21

They made me jealous with not God; They irritated me with their vanities: And I will make them jealous with not a people; With a foolish nation will I irritate them.

Deuteronomy 32:16

He will cause him to be jealous with strangers, With abominations they will irritate him.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

What was, its name was called already, and it was known that it is man: and he shall not be able to contend with the powerful above him.

Ezekiel 22:14

Will thy heart stand, or will thine hands be strong for the day which I do with thee? I Jehovah spoke, and I

Exodus 20:5

Thou shalt not worship to them, and thou shalt not serve them: for I am Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth, to them hating me;

Exodus 34:14

For thou shalt not worship another God: for Jehovah, his name is Jealous; he is a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 4:24

For Jehovah thy God he is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 6:15

(For Jehovah thy God a jealous God in the midst of thee) lest the anger of Jehovah thy God shall kindle against thee and destroy thee from the face of the earth.

Joshua 24:19

And Joshua will say to the people, Ye will not be able to serve Jehovah, for a holy God is he: a jealous God is he; he will not take away your transgressions and your sins.

Job 9:4

Wise of heart and strong of power: who was hard before him and shall be requited?

Job 40:9-14

And if an arm to thee as God? and with thy voice wilt thou thunder as he?

Psalm 78:58

And they will make him angry with their heights, and they will provoke him to jealousy with their carved images.

Isaiah 45:9

Wo to him striving with him forming him! the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him forming it, What wilt thou make? and thy work, No hands to it?

Zephaniah 1:18

Also their silver also their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah; and all the land shall be consumed by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make a completion even sudden of all dwelling in the land.

Hebrews 10:31

Terrible to fall into the hands of the living God.

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