1 Corintios 10:22

22 ¿Qué? ¿Acaso nos atreveremos a despertar los celos del Señor? ¿Piensan que somos más fuertes que él?

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, de ninguna manera. Lo que digo es que esos sacrificios se ofrecen a los demonios, no a Dios. Y no quiero que ustedes tengan parte con los demonios.

21 Ustedes no pueden beber de la copa del Señor y también de la copa de los demonios. No pueden comer de la Mesa del Señor y también de la mesa de los demonios.

22 ¿Qué? ¿Acaso nos atreveremos a despertar los celos del Señor? ¿Piensan que somos más fuertes que él?

23 Ustedes dicen: «Se me permite hacer cualquier cosa»
, pero no todo les conviene. Dicen: «Se me permite hacer cualquier cosa», pero no todo trae beneficio.

24 No se preocupen por su propio bien, sino por el bien de los demás.