20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice (A)they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21 (B)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and (C)the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and (D)the table of demons. 22 (E)Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? (F)Are we stronger than he?

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20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons,(A) not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.(B) 22 Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy?(C) Are we stronger than he?(D)

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16 (A)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
    with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 (B)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
    to gods they had never known,
to (C)new gods that had come recently,
    whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of (D)the Rock that bore[a] you,
    and you (E)forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 (F)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
    because of the provocation of (G)his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, (H)‘I will hide my face from them;
    I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
    children in whom is no faithfulness.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:18 Or fathered

16 They made him jealous(A) with their foreign gods
    and angered(B) him with their detestable idols.
17 They sacrificed(C) to false gods,(D) which are not God—
    gods they had not known,(E)
    gods that recently appeared,(F)
    gods your ancestors did not fear.
18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
    you forgot(G) the God who gave you birth.

19 The Lord saw this and rejected them(H)
    because he was angered by his sons and daughters.(I)
20 “I will hide my face(J) from them,” he said,
    “and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,(K)
    children who are unfaithful.(L)

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