For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
and all ate the same spiritual meat,
and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they were drinking of a spiritual attendant rock (and the rock was Christ);
but in the most of them God had no pleasure, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, even as they also lusted.
Neither be ye idolaters, even as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Neither let us commit fornication, even as some of them committed, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand.
Neither let us tempt the Lord, even as some of them tempted, and were perishing by the serpents.
Neither murmur ye, according as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
Now all these things happened unto them typically, and were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have reached.
So then let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
No temptation hath taken you save a human one: but God [is] faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but will with the temptation make also the issue that ye may be able to bear [it].
Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
I speak as to prudent [men]: judge ye what I say.
The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not fellowship with the blood of the Christ? The loaf which we break, is it not fellowship with the body of the Christ?
Because we, the many, are one loaf, one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.
See Israel according to flesh: are not they that eat the sacrifices in fellowship with the altar?
What say I then? that an idol-sacrifice is anything, or that an idol is anything?
but that what they sacrifice, they sacrificed to demons, and not to God; and I wish you not to be in fellowship with demons.
Ye cannot drink [the] Lord’s cup, and a cup of demons; ye cannot partake of [the] Lord’s table, and of a table of demons.
What! do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
All things are lawful, but not all profit; all things are lawful, but not all edify.
Let none seek his own [advantage], but his neighbour’s.
Everything that is offered for sale in the shambles eat, examining nothing for conscience’ sake:
for the earth [is] the Lord’s, and its fullness.
And if anyone of the unbelieving inviteth you, and ye desire to go, all that is set before you eat, examining nothing for conscience’ sake.
But if anyone say to you, This is sacrificed, eat not for his sake that pointed [it] out, and conscience;
but conscience, I say, not one’s own, but the other’s; for why is my liberty to be judged by another conscience?
If I partake with thanks, why am I to be evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
Whether then ye eat or drink or do anything, do all things unto God’s glory.
Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews or Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
even as I too please all in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but that of the many, that they be saved.