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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© British and Foreign Bible Society 2012
1 Corinthians 10
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1 For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and they all went across the sea.
2 And in Moses, they all were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea.
3 And they all ate of the same spiritual food.
4 And they all drank of the same spiritual drink. And so, they all were drinking of the spiritual rock seeking to obtain them; and that rock was Christ.
5 But with most of them, God was not well-pleased. For they were struck down in the desert.
6 Now these things were done as an example for us, so that we might not desire evil things, just as they desired.
7 And so, do not take part in idolatry, as some of them did, just as it was written: "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and then they rose up to amuse themselves."
8 And let us not commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and so twenty-three thousand fell on one day.
9 And let us not tempt Christ, as some of them tempted, and so they perished by serpents.
10 And you should not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so they perished by the destroyer.
11 Now all of these things happened to them as an example, and so they have been written for our correction, because the final age has fallen upon us.
12 And so, whosoever considers himself to be standing, let him be careful not to fall.
13 Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.
14 Because of this, most beloved of mine, flee from the worship of idols.
15 Since I am speaking to those who are prudent, judge what I say for yourselves.
16 The cup of benediction that we bless, is it not a communion in the Blood of Christ? And the bread that we break, is it not a participation in the Body of the Lord?
17 Through the one bread, we, though many, are one body: all of us who are partakers of the one bread.
18 Consider Israel, according to the flesh. Are not those who eat from the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
19 What is next? Should I say that what is immolated to idols is anything? Or that the idol is anything?
20 But the things that the Gentiles immolate, they immolate to demons, and not to God. And I do not want you to become partakers with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and partakers of the table of demons.
22 Or should we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he is? All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient.
23 All is lawful to me, but not all is edifying.
24 Let no one seek for himself, but for others.
25 Whatever is sold in the market, you may eat, without asking questions for the sake of conscience.
26 "The earth and all its fullness belong to the Lord."
27 If you are invited by any unbelievers, and you are willing to go, you may eat whatever is set before you, without asking questions for the sake of conscience.
28 But if anyone says, "This has been sacrificed to idols," do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience.
29 But I am referring to the conscience of the other person, not to yours. For why should my liberty be judged by the conscience of another?
30 If I partake with thanksgiving, why should I be slandered over that for which I give thanks?
31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.
32 Be without offense toward the Jews, and toward the Gentiles, and toward the Church of God,
33 just as I also, in all things, please everyone, not seeking what is best for myself, but what is best for many others, so that they may be saved.
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