1 For ARom 1:13I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all BEx 13:21; Ps 105:39under the cloud and all CEx 14:22, 29; Neh 9:11; Ps 66:6passed through the sea; 2 and all were ARom 6:3; 1 Cor 1:13; Gal 3:27baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 and all AEx 16:4, 35; Deut 8:3; Neh 9:15, 20; Ps 78:24f; John 6:31ate the same spiritual food; 4 and all AEx 17:6; Num 20:11; Ps 78:15drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was 1I.e. the MessiahChrist. 5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for ANum 14:29ff, 37; 26:65; Heb 3:17; Jude 5they were laid low in the wilderness.

6 Now these things happened as A1 Cor 10:11examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as BNum 11:4, 34; Ps 106:14they also craved. 7 Do not be AEx 32:4; 1 Cor 5:11; 10:14idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, “BEx 32:6Tʜᴇ ᴘᴇoᴘʟᴇ sᴀᴛ ᴅowɴ ᴛo ᴇᴀᴛ ᴀɴᴅ ᴅʀɪɴᴋ, ᴀɴᴅ sᴛooᴅ ᴜᴘ ᴛo CEx 32:19ᴘʟᴀʏ.” 8 Nor let us act immorally, as ANum 25:1ffsome of them 1Lit acted immorallydid, and BNum 25:9twenty-three thousand fell in one day. 9 Nor let us try the Lord, as ANum 21:5fsome of them 1Lit made trialdid, and were destroyed by the serpents. 10 Nor ANum 16:41; 17:5, 10grumble, as some of them 1Lit grumbleddid, and BNum 16:49were destroyed by the CEx 12:23; 2 Sam 24:16; 1 Chr 21:15; Heb 11:28destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as an A1 Cor 10:6example, and BRom 4:23they were written for our instruction, upon whom CRom 13:11the ends of the ages have come. 12 Therefore let him who ARom 11:20; 2 Pet 3:17thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and A1 Cor 1:9God is faithful, who will not allow you to be B2 Pet 2:9tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

14 Therefore, my AHeb 6:9beloved, flee from B1 Cor 10:7, 19f; 1 John 5:21idolatry. 15 I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say. 16 Is not the AMatt 26:27f; Mark 14:23f; Luke 22:20; 1 Cor 11:25cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the 1Lit loafBMatt 26:26; Luke 22:19; Acts 2:42; 1 Cor 11:23fbread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ? 17 Since there is one 1Lit loafbread, we ARom 12:5; 1 Cor 12:12f, 27; Eph 4:4, 16; Col 3:15who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one 1Lit loafbread. 18 Look at 1Lit Israel according to the fleshthe nation ARom 1:3Israel; are not those who BLev 7:6, 14f; Deut 12:17feat the sacrifices sharers in the altar? 19 What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or A1 Cor 8:4that an idol is anything? 20 No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they ADeut 32:17; Ps 106:37; Gal 4:8; Rev 9:20sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons. 21 A2 Cor 6:16You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and BIs 65:11the table of demons. 22 Or do we ADeut 32:21provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not BEccl 6:10; Is 45:9stronger than He, are we?

23 A1 Cor 6:12All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things BRom 14:19edify. 24 Let no one ARom 15:2; 1 Cor 10:33; 13:5; 2 Cor 12:14; Phil 2:21seek his own good, but that of his 1Lit the otherneighbor. 25 AActs 10:15; 1 Cor 8:7Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience’ sake; 26 APs 24:1; 50:12; 1 Tim 4:4ꜰoʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇᴀʀᴛʜ ɪs ᴛʜᴇ Loʀᴅ’s, ᴀɴᴅ 1Lit its fullnessᴀʟʟ ɪᴛ coɴᴛᴀɪɴs. 27 If A1 Cor 5:10one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, BLuke 10:8eat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience’ sake. 28 But A1 Cor 8:7, 10-12if anyone says to you, “This is meat sacrificed to idols,” do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience’ sake; 29 I mean not your own conscience, but the other man’s; for ARom 14:16; 1 Cor 9:19why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience? 30 If I partake with thankfulness, A1 Cor 9:1why am I slandered concerning that for which I BRom 14:6give thanks?

31 Whether, then, you eat or drink or ACol 3:17; 1 Pet 4:11whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32 AActs 24:16; 1 Cor 8:13Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to BActs 20:28; 1 Cor 1:2; 7:17; 11:22; 15:9; 2 Cor 1:1; Gal 1:13; Phil 3:6; 1 Tim 3:5, 15the church of God; 33 just as I also ARom 15:2; 1 Cor 9:22; Gal 1:10please all men in all things, BRom 15:2; 1 Cor 13:5; 2 Cor 12:14; Phil 2:21not seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, CRom 11:14; 1 Thess 2:16so that they may be saved.