Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? 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?

Julia Smith Translation

Do we emulate the Lord? 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?

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 You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons. 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? 23 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Deuteronomy 32:16

They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

Ezekiel 22:14

Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Exodus 34:14

for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 4:24

For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 6:15

for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Joshua 24:19

Joshua said to the people, "You can't serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

Job 9:4

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

Job 40:9-14

Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to him who strives with his Maker -- a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?'

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

Hebrews 10:31

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

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