1 Corinthians 10:1 (BSB)
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.

1 Corinthians 10:2 (BSB)
They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

1 Corinthians 10:3 (BSB)
They all ate the same spiritual food

1 Corinthians 10:4 (BSB)
and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

1 Corinthians 10:5 (BSB)
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

1 Corinthians 10:6 (BSB)
These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

1 Corinthians 10:7 (BSB)
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.”

1 Corinthians 10:8 (BSB)
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

1 Corinthians 10:9 (BSB)
We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.

1 Corinthians 10:10 (BSB)
And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

1 Corinthians 10:11 (BSB)
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.

1 Corinthians 10:12 (BSB)
So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.

1 Corinthians 10:13 (BSB)
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.

1 Corinthians 10:14 (BSB)
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

1 Corinthians 10:15 (BSB)
I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say.

1 Corinthians 10:16 (BSB)
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?

1 Corinthians 10:17 (BSB)
Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.

1 Corinthians 10:18 (BSB)
Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?

1 Corinthians 10:19 (BSB)
Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

1 Corinthians 10:20 (BSB)
No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.

1 Corinthians 10:21 (BSB)
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.

1 Corinthians 10:22 (BSB)
Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

1 Corinthians 10:23 (BSB)
“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.

1 Corinthians 10:24 (BSB)
No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.

1 Corinthians 10:25 (BSB)
Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,

1 Corinthians 10:26 (BSB)
for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”

1 Corinthians 10:27 (BSB)
If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.

1 Corinthians 10:28 (BSB)
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—

1 Corinthians 10:29 (BSB)
the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?

1 Corinthians 10:30 (BSB)
If I partake in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

1 Corinthians 10:31 (BSB)
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:32 (BSB)
Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

1 Corinthians 10:33 (BSB)
as I also 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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