For aI do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all bunder the cloud and all cpassed through the sea;
2and all were abaptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3and all aate the same spiritual food;
4and all adrank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was 1Christ.
5Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for athey were laid low in the wilderness.
6Now these things happened as aexamples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as bthey also craved.
7Do not be aidolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, " bTHE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND DRINK, AND STOOD UP TO cPLAY."
8Nor let us act immorally, as asome of them 1did, and btwenty-three thousand fell in one day.
9Nor let us try the Lord, as asome of them 1did, and were destroyed by the serpents.
10Nor agrumble, as some of them 1did, and bwere destroyed by the cdestroyer.
11Now these things happened to them as an aexample, and bthey were written for our instruction, upon whom cthe ends of the ages have come.
12Therefore let him who athinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.
13No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and aGod is faithful, who will not allow you to be btempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
14Therefore, my abeloved, flee from bidolatry.
15I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say.
16Is not the acup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the 1 bbread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?
17Since there is one 1bread, we awho are many are one body; for we all partake of the one 1bread.
18Look at 1the nation aIsrael; are not those who beat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?
19What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or athat an idol is anything?
20No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they asacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons.
21aYou cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and bthe table of demons.
22Or do we aprovoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not bstronger than He, are we?
23aAll things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things bedify.
24Let no one aseek his own good, but that of his 1neighbor.
25aEat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience' sake;
26aFOR THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND 1ALL IT CONTAINS.
27If aone of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, beat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience' sake.
28But aif anyone says to you, "This is meat sacrificed to idols," do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience' sake;
29I mean not your own conscience, but the other man's; for awhy is my freedom judged by another's conscience?
30If I partake with thankfulness, awhy am I slandered concerning that for which I bgive thanks?
31Whether, then, you eat or drink or awhatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
32aGive no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to bthe church of God;
33just as I also aplease all men in all things, bnot seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, cso that they may be saved.