1 Corinthians 10:22
 1 Corinthians 10:22 
New International Version (©2011)
Are we trying to arouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

New Living Translation (©2007)
What? Do we dare to rouse the Lord's jealousy? Do you think we are stronger than he is?

English Standard Version (©2001)
Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?"

International Standard Version (©2012)
or you'll provoke the Lord to jealousy, won't you? Are we stronger than he is?

NET Bible (©2006)
Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Or do we make our Lord envious? Are we stronger than he?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Are we trying to make the Lord jealous? Are we stronger than he is?

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

American King James Version
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?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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?

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

Young's Literal Translation
do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:15-22 Did not the joining in the Lord's supper show a profession of faith in Christ crucified, and of adoring gratitude to him for his salvation ? Christians, by this ordinance, and the faith therein professed, were united as the grains of wheat in one loaf of bread, or as the members in the human body, seeing they were all united to Christ, and had fellowship with him and one another. This is confirmed from the Jewish worship and customs in sacrifice. The apostle applies this to feasting with idolaters. Eating food as part of a heathen sacrifice, was worshipping the idol to whom it was made, and having fellowship or communion with it; just as he who eats the Lord's supper, is accounted to partake in the Christian sacrifice, or as they who ate the Jewish sacrifices partook of what was offered on their altar. It was denying Christianity; for communion with Christ, and communion with devils, could never be had at once. If Christians venture into places, and join in sacrifices to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, they will provoke God.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 22. - Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? (Deuteronomy 32:21," They have moved me to jealousy by that which is not God"). The expression, "a jealous God," is used in the second commandment with express reference to idolatry, as in Exodus 34:14, 15. Are we stronger than he? Can we, therefore, with impunity, kindle his anger against us? "He is... mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?" (Job 9:4). Ver. 23 - 1 Corinthians 11:1. - Directions about eating idol offerings, founded on these principles.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy?.... As they do who are guilty of idolatry in any shape: nothing is more highly resented by God, or stirs him up more to wrath and fury, and to inflict punishment; he cannot bear, nor will he admit of a rival in religious worship; he is a God jealous of his own honour; nor will he give, or suffer to be given by others, his praise and glory to graven images:

are we stronger than he? to give into idolatrous practices, is to proclaim and enter into a war against God; and what madness must this be? who can be so sottish and stupid as to think of succeeding? when God is omnipotent, and man a poor feeble impotent creature, a worm, and but dust and ashes: thus the apostle dissuades from idolatry, and every species and branch of it; partly from its ill effect, in bringing men into fellowship with devils; and partly from the impossibility of practising it, in consistence with a true and real participation of the cup and table of the Lord; and from the absurdity and stupidity of it, and its dangerous consequence, in exposing men to the vengeance of an almighty incensed Being.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy?—by dividing our fellowship between Him and idols (Eze 20:39). Is it our wish to provoke Him to assert His power? De 32:21 is before the apostle's mind [Alford], (Ex 20:5).

are we stronger?—that we can risk a contest with Him.


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Flee from Idolatry
20But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with devils. 21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: you cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. 22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Deuteronomy 32:21 They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
1 Kings 14:22 Judah did evil in the eyes of the LORD. By the sins they committed they stirred up his jealous anger more than those who were before them had done.
Ecclesiastes 6:10 Whatever exists has already been named, and what humanity is has been known; no one can contend with someone who is stronger.
Isaiah 45:9 "Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'The potter has no hands'?
Jeremiah 7:19 But am I the one they are provoking? declares the LORD. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?
Jeremiah 44:8 Why arouse my anger with what your hands have made, burning incense to other gods in Egypt, where you have come to live? You will destroy yourselves and make yourselves a curse and an object of reproach among all the nations on earth.