1 Coríntios 10

¹ Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant about how all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.

² They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

³ They all ate the same spiritual meal.

⁴ They all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them. That Rock was representedsymbolic of Christ! (Exodus 7:6) (Numbers 20:11)

⁵ God was not pleased with most of them. And their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

⁶ Now these things were examples for us. They teach us not to lust after evil things like they did.

⁷ Do not be idolaters like some of them. It is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.

⁸ Do not commit fornication like some of them committed. Twenty three thousand of them died in one day.

⁹ Do not test Jehovah like some of them also did and were destroyed by serpents.

¹⁰ Do not grumble like some of them grumbled. Venomous snakes killed them.

¹¹ These things happened for examples, and they are written for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come.

¹² Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.

¹³ No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to man. God is faithful and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your limits. He will make a way out, that you will be able to endure it.

¹⁴ My dearly beloved, flee run away from idolatry.

¹⁵ I speak as to wise men. You judge what I say.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing we bless, is it not the sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread we break, is it not the sharing of the body of Christ?

¹⁷ For we being many are one-bread and one-body. We are all partakers of that one bread.

¹⁸ Is physical Israel the ones who eat the sacrifices, the partakers of the altar?

¹⁹ What do I mean? That the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?

²⁰ But I say, that the things that the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.

²¹ You cannot drink the cup of Jehovah and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the Jehovah's Table and of the table of demons. (Malachi 1:12)

²² Do we provoke Jehovah to rivalry indignationanger? Are we stronger than he?

²³ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient profitable. All things are lawful for me, but all things do not build up confirmstrengthen.

²⁴ Let no one seek his own advantage, but that of the other person.

²⁵ Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without asking questions for the sake of conscience.

²⁶ For the earth and that which fills it is Jehovah’s. (Psalm 24:1)

²⁷ If a nonbeliever invites you to a feast and you feel you must go eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience sake.

²⁸ But if any man says to you: »This is offered in sacrifice to idols,« do not eat for the sake of the one who said it and for conscience sake.

²⁹ Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: Yet why is my freedom judged by another man's conscience?

³⁰ For if I by grace am a partaker, why is evil spoken about me concerning that for which I give thanks?

³¹ Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.

³² Do not stumble or offend do not lead into sin, neither to the Jews, nor to the nations, nor to the congregation of God.

³³ Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.