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10 : 1 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.
10 : 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
10 : 3 They all ate the same spiritual food
10 : 4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
10 : 5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert.
10 : 6 Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.
10 : 7 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."
10 : 8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did--and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
10 : 9 We should not test the Lord, as some of them did--and were killed by snakes.
10 : 10 And do not grumble, as some of them did--and were killed by the destroying angel.
10 : 11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
10 : 12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don`t fall!
10 : 13 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.
10 : 14 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
10 : 15 I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
10 : 16 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?
10 : 17 Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.
10 : 18 Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
10 : 19 Do I mean then that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
10 : 20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.
10 : 21 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.
10 : 22 Are we trying to arouse the Lord`s jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
10 : 23 Everything is permissible--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible"--but not everything is constructive.
10 : 24 Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.
10 : 25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
10 : 26 for, "The earth is the Lord`s, and everything in it."
10 : 27 If some unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience.
10 : 28 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--
10 : 29 the other man`s conscience, I mean, not yours. For why should my freedom be judged by another`s conscience?
10 : 30 If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for?
10 : 31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
10 : 32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God--
10 : 33 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.