﻿1 Corinthians.
Chapter 10.
For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea. 
And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 
and all ate the same spiritual food, 
and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 
Yet God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness. 
Now these things became examples for us, so that we would not desire evil things as they did. 
Do not become idolaters as some of them did, as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” 
Nor let us practice sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day. 
Nor let us put Christ to the test as some of them did and were destroyed by snakes. 
And do not grumble as some of them did and were destroyed by the destroyer. 
These things happened to them as examples, and they were written to admonish us, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 
So let the one who thinks he stands take care lest he fall. 
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to human beings. But God is faithful, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you can bear. With the temptation he will also provide the way out, so that you may be able to endure it. 
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 
I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. 
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not participation in the body of Christ? 
Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf. 
Consider Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? 
What, then, am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 
Rather, what they sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons. 
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. 
Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? 
All things are lawful, but not all things are beneficial. All things are lawful, but not all things build up. 
Let no one seek his own good, but the good of the other. 
Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for the sake of conscience, 
for “the earth is the Lord’s, and all that fills it.” 
If an unbeliever invites you and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience. 
But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you and for the sake of conscience. 
I mean not your own conscience, but the other person’s. For why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience? 
If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I maligned for what I give thanks for? 
So whether you eat or drink or do anything, do all things to the glory of God. 
Give no cause for stumbling to Jews or Greeks or the church of God, 
just as I too please everyone in all things, not seeking my own benefit but that of the many, so that they may be saved. 
