1 Corinthians 10 | Strong's Bible

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CHAPTER 10

I do not want

you

to be unaware,

brothers,

that

our

forefathers

were

all

under

the

cloud,

and that

they all

passed

through

the

sea.

They were all baptized

into

Moses

in

the

cloud

and

in

the

sea.

They all

ate

the

same

spiritual

food

and

drank

the

same

spiritual

drink;

for

they drank

from

the spiritual

rock

that accompanied them,

and

that

rock

was

Christ.

Nevertheless,

God

was not pleased

with

most

of them,

for

they were struck down

in

the

wilderness.

These things

took place

as examples

to keep

us

from craving

evil things

as

they

did.

Do not be

idolaters,

as

some

of them were.

As

it is written:

“The

people

sat down

to eat

and

to drink,

and

got up

to indulge in revelry.”

We should not commit sexual immorality,

as

some

of them

did,

and

in one

day

twenty-three

thousand of them

died.

We should not test

Christ,

as

some

of them

did,

and

were killed

by

snakes.

And do not complain,

as

some

of them

did,

and

were killed

by

the

destroying angel.

Now

these things

happened

to them

as examples

and

were written down

as warnings

for

us,

on

whom

the

fulfillment

of the

ages

has come.

So

the one who

thinks

he is standing firm

should be careful

not

to fall.

No

temptation

has seized

you

except

what is common to man.

And

God

is faithful;

He

will not let

you

be tempted

beyond

what

you can bear.

But

when

you are tempted,

He will also provide

an escape,

so that you can

stand up under it.

Therefore,

my

beloved,

flee

from

idolatry.

I speak

to reasonable people;

judge

for yourselves

what

I say.

Is

not

the

cup

of blessing

that

we bless

a participation

in the

blood

of Christ?

And is

not

the

bread

that

we break

a 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

the people

of Israel:

Are

not

those who

eat

the

sacrifices

fellow partakers

in the

altar?

Am I suggesting,

then,

that

food sacrificed to an idol

is

anything,

or

that

an idol

is

anything?

No,

but

the

sacrifices

of pagans

are offered

to demons,

not

to God.

And

I do not want

you

to be

participants

with demons.

You cannot

drink

the cup

of the Lord

and

the cup

of demons too;

you cannot

partake

in the table

of the Lord

and

the table

of demons too.

Are we trying to provoke

the

Lord to jealousy?

Are we

stronger

than He?

“Everything

is permissible,”

but

not

everything

is beneficial.

“Everything

is permissible,”

but

not

everything

is edifying.

No one

should seek

his own

good,

but

the good

of others.

Eat

anything

sold

in

the meat market

without

raising questions

of

conscience,

for,

“The

earth

is the

Lord’s,

and

the

fullness

thereof.”

If

an

unbeliever

invites

you to a meal

and

you want

to go,

eat

anything

set before

you

without

raising questions

of

conscience.

But

if

someone

tells

you,

“This food

was

offered to idols,”

then do not

eat it,

for the sake of

the one

who

told you

and

for the sake of conscience—

the

other one’s

conscience ,

I mean,

not

your own.

For

why

should my

freedom

be determined

by

someone else’s

conscience?

If

I

partake in the meal

with thankfulness,

why

am I denounced

because of

that for which

I

give thanks?

So

whether

you eat

or

drink

or

whatever

you do,

do

it all

to the

glory

of God.

Do not become a stumbling block,

whether

to Jews

or

Greeks

or

the

church

of God,

just as I

try to please

everyone

in all I do.

For I am not seeking

my own

good,

but

the good

of many,

that

they may be saved.

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