1 Now I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
2 and all were baptized into 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 that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
5 But with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things became examples for us, so that we should not desire evil things, as they also desired.
7 And do not become idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."
8 Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
9 Nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also did, and were destroyed by the serpents.
10 Nor murmur, as some of them also did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened to them as types, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
13 No temptation has taken hold of you except what is human; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak as to sensible men; you judge what I say.
16 The 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 Because there is one bread, we, though many, are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.
18 Consider Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
19 What, then, do I say? That an idol is anything, or that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything?
20 Rather, I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice 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 partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.
22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
23 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable; all things are lawful for me, but not all things build up.
24 Let no one seek his own, but each one another's good.
25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience' sake;
26 for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."
27 And if any of those who do not believe invites you, and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for conscience' sake.
28 But if anyone says to you, "This was sacrificed to idols," do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you and for conscience' sake; for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."
29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other man's; for why is my liberty judged by another's conscience?
30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I spoken evil of for that for which I give thanks?
31 Whether, then, you eat or drink or do anything, do all things to the glory of God.
32 Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but that of the many, that they may be saved.