1 Corinthians 10:19-33 ▼

19 What do I say then? That an idol is anything? Or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything?

20 [No,] but that the things that the nations sacrifice—they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.

21 You are not able to drink the cup of the LORD and the cup of demons; you are not able to partake of the table of the LORD and of the table of demons;

22 do we arouse the LORD to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

23 All things are lawful to me, but not all things are profitable; all things are lawful to me, but not all things build up;

24 let no one seek his own—but each another’s.

25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat-market, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

26 for the earth and its fullness [are] the LORD’s;

27 and if anyone of the unbelieving calls you, and you wish to go, eat all that is set before you, inquiring nothing, because of the conscience;

28 and if anyone may say to you, “This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,” do not eat, because of that one who showed [it], and of the conscience, for the LORD’s [is] the earth and its fullness:

29 and conscience, I say, not of yourself, but of the other, for why [is it] that my liberty is judged by another’s conscience?

30 And if I partake thankfully, why am I spoken of [as] evil, for that for which I give thanks?

31 Whether, then, you eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

32 become offenseless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the Assembly of God;

33 as I also please all in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of many—that they may be saved.