1 Corinthians 10
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Don't worship idols
1Friends, I want to remind you that all our ancestors walked under the cloud and went through the sea.#Ex 13.21,22; Ex 14.22-29. 2This was like being baptized and becoming followers of Moses. 3All of them also ate the same spiritual food#Ex 16.35. 4and drank the same spiritual drink, which flowed from the spiritual rock that followed them. That rock was Christ.#Ex 17.6; Nu 20.11. 5But most of them did not please God. So they died, and their bodies were scattered all over the desert.#Nu 14.29,30.
6What happened to them is a warning to keep us from wanting to do the same evil things.#Nu 11.4. 7They worshipped idols, just as the Scriptures say, “The people sat down to eat and drink. Then they got up to dance around.” So don't worship idols.#Ex 32.6. 8Some of those people did shameful things, and in a single day about twenty-three thousand of them died. Don't do shameful things as they did.#Nu 25.1-18. 9And don't try to test Christ,#10.9 Christ: Some manuscripts have “the Lord”. as some of them did and were later bitten by poisonous snakes.#Nu 21.5,6. 10Don't even grumble, as some of them did and were killed by the destroying angel.#Nu 16.41-49. 11These things happened to them as a warning to us. All this was written in the Scriptures to teach us who live in these last days.
12Even if you think you can stand up to temptation, be careful not to fall. 13You are tempted in the same way that everyone else is tempted. But God can be trusted not to let you be tempted too much, and he will show you how to escape from your temptations.
14My friends, you must keep away from idols. 15I am speaking to you as people who have enough sense to know what I am talking about. 16When we drink from the cup that we ask God to bless, isn't that sharing in the blood of Christ? When we eat the bread that we break, isn't that sharing in the body of Christ?#Mt 26.26-28; Mk 14.22-24; Lk 22.19,20. 17By sharing in the same loaf of bread, we become one body, even though there are many of us.
18Aren't the people of Israel sharing in the worship when they gather around the altar and eat the sacrifices offered there?#Lv 7.6. 19Am I saying that either the idols or the food sacrificed to them is anything at all? 20No, I am not! That food is really sacrificed to demons and not to God. I don't want you to have anything to do with demons.#Dt 32.17 (LXX). 21You cannot drink from the cup of demons and still drink from the Lord's cup. You cannot eat at the table of demons and still eat at the Lord's table. 22We would make the Lord jealous if we did that. And we are not stronger than the Lord.#Dt 32.21.
Always honour God
23Some of you say, “We can do whatever we want to!” But I tell you that not everything may be good or helpful.#1 Co 6.12. 24We should think about others and not about ourselves. 25However, when you buy meat in the market, go ahead and eat it. Keep your conscience clear by not asking where the meat came from. 26The Scriptures say, “The earth and everything in it belong to the Lord.”#Ps 24.1.
27If an unbeliever invites you to dinner, and you want to go, then go. Eat whatever you are served. Don't cause a problem for someone's conscience by asking where the food came from. 28-29But if you are told that it has been sacrificed to idols, don't cause a problem by eating it. I don't mean a problem for yourself, but for the one who told you. Why should my freedom be limited by someone else's conscience? 30If I give thanks for what I eat, why should anyone accuse me of doing wrong?
31When you eat or drink or do anything else, always do it to honour God. 32Don't cause problems for Jews or Greeks or anyone else who belongs to God's church. 33I always try to please others instead of myself, in the hope that many of them will be saved.
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1 Corinthians 10
10
Warning Against Idolatry
1#Ex 14:29; Ps 66:6I would not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3#Ex 16:35; Dt 8:3all ate the same spiritual food; 4#Ex 17:6; Nu 20:11and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5#Heb 3:17; Jude 1:5But with many of them God was not well pleased, and they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6#Nu 11:4; 1Co 10:11Now these things were our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they lusted. 7#Ex 32:19; 32:4Neither be idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to revel.”#Ex 32:6. 8#Nu 25:1–9; 1Co 6:18Neither let us commit sexual immorality as some of them committed, when twenty-three thousand fell in one day. 9#Nu 21:5–6; Ex 17:2Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted and were destroyed by serpents. 10#Ex 12:23; Nu 16:41Neither murmur, as some of them also murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.
11#Ro 13:11Now all these things happened to them for examples. They are written as an admonition to us, upon whom the end of the ages has come. 12#Ro 11:20Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed, lest he fall. 13#1Co 1:9; 2Pe 2:9No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, and He will not permit you to be tempted above what you can endure, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
14#1Co 10:7; 1Jn 5:21So, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15#1Co 8:1; 1Th 5:21I speak as to wise men. Judge for yourselves what I say. 16#Mt 26:26–28; Ac 2:42The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17#Ro 12:5; 1Co 12:12For we, being many, are one bread and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread.
18#Ro 4:1Consider Israel after the flesh: Are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? 19#1Co 8:4What am I saying then, that the idol is anything or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? 20#Rev 9:20But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. 21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons. 22#Dt 32:21; 32:16Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
Do All to the Glory of God
23#1Co 6:12; 8:9“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things edify. 24#1Co 10:33; 13:5Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being.
25#1Co 8:7Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no question for the sake of conscience, 26#Ps 24:1; 50:12for “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”#Ps 24:1.
27If any of those who do not believe invite you to a feast, and you desire to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for the sake of conscience. 28But if anyone says to you, “This was offered in sacrifice to idols,” do not eat it for the sake of him that mentioned it and for the sake of conscience, for “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”#Ps 24:1. 29#1Co 9:19Conscience, I say, not your own, but that of the other. For why is my liberty judged by another man’s conscience? 30#Ro 14:6; 1Ti 4:3–4If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks?
31#Col 3:17; 1Pe 4:11Therefore, whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. 32#Ac 20:28; 1Co 8:13; Ro 14:13Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God, 33#1Co 10:24just as I try to please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
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