| 1 | For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; |
| 2 | and all were baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; |
| 3 | and all ate the same spiritual food, |
| 4 | and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed [them]: (now the rock was the Christ;) |
| 5 | yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert. |
| 6 | But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted. |
| 7 | Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. |
| 8 | Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. |
| 9 | Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents. |
| 10 | Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer. |
| 11 | Now all these things happened to them [as] types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. |
| 12 | So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. |
| 13 | No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able [to bear], but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that [ye] should be able to bear [it]. |
| 14 | Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. |
| 15 | I speak as to intelligent [persons]: do ye judge what I say. |
| 16 | The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not [the] communion of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not [the] communion of the body of the Christ? |
| 17 | Because we, [being] many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf. |
| 18 | See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar? |
| 19 | What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? |
| 20 | But that what [the nations] sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons. |
| 21 | Ye cannot drink [the] Lord's cup, and [the] cup of demons: ye cannot partake of [the] Lord's table, and of [the] table of demons. |
| 22 | Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? |
| 23 | All things are lawful, but all are not profitable; all things are lawful, but all do not edify. |
| 24 | Let no one seek his own [advantage], but that of the other. |
| 25 | Everything sold in the shambles eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake. |
| 26 | For the earth [is] the Lord's and its fulness. |
| 27 | But if any one of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are minded to go, all that is set before you eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake. |
| 28 | But if any one say to you, This is offered to holy purposes, do not eat, for his sake that pointed it out, and conscience sake; |
| 29 | but conscience, I mean, not thine own, but that of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another conscience? |
| 30 | If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I spoken evil of for what I give thanks for? |
| 31 | Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God's glory. |
| 32 | Give no occasion to stumbling, whether to Jews, or Greeks, or the assembly of God. |
| 33 | Even as I also please all in all things; not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved. |