(1 Cor 10:1 NIV) For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea.
(1 Cor 10:2 NIV) They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
(1 Cor 10:3 NIV) They all ate the same spiritual food
(1 Cor 10:4 NIV) and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
(1 Cor 10:5 NIV) Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert.
(1 Cor 10:6 NIV) Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.
(1 Cor 10:7 NIV) Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in pagan revelry."
(1 Cor 10:8 NIV) We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did--and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
(1 Cor 10:9 NIV) We should not test the Lord, as some of them did--and were killed by snakes.
(1 Cor 10:10 NIV) And do not grumble, as some of them did--and were killed by the destroying angel.
(1 Cor 10:11 NIV) 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 Cor 10:12 NIV) So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!
(1 Cor 10:13 NIV) 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 a way out so that you can stand up under it.
(1 Cor 10:14 NIV) Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
(1 Cor 10:15 NIV) I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
(1 Cor 10:16 NIV) Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
(1 Cor 10:17 NIV) Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.
(1 Cor 10:18 NIV) Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
(1 Cor 10:19 NIV) Do I mean then that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
(1 Cor 10:20 NIV) 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 Cor 10:21 NIV) You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons.
(1 Cor 10:22 NIV) Are we trying to arouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
(1 Cor 10:23 NIV) "Everything is permissible"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible"--but not everything is constructive.
(1 Cor 10:24 NIV) Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.
(1 Cor 10:25 NIV) Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
(1 Cor 10:26 NIV) for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it."
(1 Cor 10:27 NIV) If some unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience.
(1 Cor 10:28 NIV) But if anyone says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice," then do not eat it, both for the sake of the man who told you and for conscience' sake--
(1 Cor 10:29 NIV) the other man's conscience, I mean, not yours. For why should my freedom be judged by another's conscience?
(1 Cor 10:30 NIV) If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for?
(1 Cor 10:31 NIV) So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
(1 Cor 10:32 NIV) Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God--
(1 Cor 10:33 NIV) even as I try to please everybody in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.
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