WERE Gentiles, (meaning they are NO LONGER Gentiles). Next we read that both Jew and Gentile are baptized into ONE body and we should be careful not to offend Gentiles. What is this talking about?

Let’s look at the same verses in the New International Version

1Corinthians 10:20 NIV

20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.

1Corinthians 12:2 NIV

2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.

1Corinthians 12:13 NIV

13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free--and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

1Corinthians 10:32 NIV

32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God--

We see that the word “Gentile” in the four verses out of the KJV is actually two words translated in the NIV as “pagan” and “Greek.” From Strong’s concordance we read the following definitions.
 

Strong’s

1484. ethnos, eth'-nos; prob. from G1486; a race (as of the same habit), i.e. a tribe; spec. a foreign (non-Jewish) one (usually by impl. pagan):-- Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

 

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