1 Corintios 10:22

22 ¿O provocaremos a celos al Señor? ¿Somos, acaso, más fuertes que El?

1 Corintios 10:22 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 10:22

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy?
&c.] 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.

1 Corintios 10:22 In-Context

20 No, sino que digo que lo que los gentiles sacrifican, lo sacrifican a los demonios y no a Dios; no quiero que seáis partícipes con los demonios.

21 No podéis beber la copa del Señor y la copa de los demonios; no podéis participar de la mesa del Señor y de la mesa de los demonios.

22 ¿O provocaremos a celos al Señor? ¿Somos, acaso, más fuertes que El?

23 Todo es lícito, pero no todo es de provecho. Todo es lícito, pero no todo edifica.

24 Nadie busque su propio bien, sino el de su prójimo.