Bible Strands
1 Corinthians 10:18
Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul addresses the Corinthian church regarding their involvement in meals that include food offered to idols. He invokes Israel’s sacrificial practices to establish a direct parallel for their situation.
The words — βλέπετε (blepete) issues the command to "do consider." ἐσθίοντες (esthiontes) identifies the subjects as "those eating."
The thread — The act of consuming sacrificial portions appears in Leviticus 3:11 and Leviticus 7:6 as a regulated priestly and worshipper practice. Paul later extends the Israel analogy to the "Israel of God" in Galatians 6:16.
Why it lands — The text states that those who eat sacrifices become fellow partakers of the altar. It requires readers to acknowledge that shared participation in a ritual creates a binding spiritual association.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
Cross-references
- Leviticus 3:11 Then the priest is to burn them on the altar as food, a food offering to the LORD.
- Leviticus 7:6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
- Galatians 6:16 Peace and mercy to all who walk by this rule, even to the Israel of God.
- Ephesians 2:11 Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
- Philippians 3:3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
- Leviticus 3:3 From the peace offering he is to bring a food offering to the LORD: the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them,
- Romans 1:3 regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,
- Romans 4:1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has discovered?
- Romans 4:12 And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
- 1 Corinthians 9:13 Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?