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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and all ate the same spiritual food, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26For “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.” |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else’s conscience? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks? |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved. |
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