CLV(i)
1 For I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers all were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
2 and all are baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
3 and all ate the same spiritual food,
4 and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of the spiritual Rock which followed. Now the Rock was Christ."
5 But not in the majority of them does God delight, for they were strewn along in the wilderness."
6 Now these things became types of us, for us not to be lusters after evil things,
7 according as they also lust. Nor yet be becoming idolaters, according as some of them, even as it is written, "Seated are the people to eat and drink, and they rise to sport."
8 Nor yet may we be committing prostitution, according as some of them commit prostitution, and fall in one day twenty-three thousand."
9 Nor yet may we be putting the Lord on trial, according as some of them put Him on trial, and perished by serpents."
10 Nor yet be murmuring even as some of them murmur, and perished by the exterminator."
11 Now all this befalls them typically. Yet it was written for our admonition, to whom the consummations of the eons have attained."
12 So that, let him who is supposing he stands beware that he should not be falling."
13 No trial has taken you except what is human. Now, faithful is God, Who will not be leaving you to be tried above what you are able, but, together with the trial, will be making the sequel also, to enable you to undergo it."
14 Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry."
15 As to the prudent am I saying it. Judge ye what I am averring.
16 The cup of blessing which we are blessing, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we are breaking, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
17 For we, who are many, are one bread, one body, for we all are partaking of the one bread."
18 Observe Israel according to the flesh. Are not those eating the sacrifices participants with the altar?
19 What, then, am I averring? That an idol sacrifice is anything? Or that an idol is anything?
20 But that that which the nations are sacrificing, they are sacrificing to demons and not to God. Now I do not want you to become participants with the demons."
21 You can not drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can not be partaking of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
22 Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Not stronger that He are we!
23 All is allowed me, but not all is expedient. All is allowed me, but not all is edifying."
24 Let no one be seeking the welfare of himself, but that of another."
25 Everything that is sold at the meat market be eating, examining nothing because of conscience."
26 For "the Lord's is the earth and that which fills it."
27 If anyone of the unbelievers is inviting you, and you want to go, be eating everything that is placed before you, examining nothing because of conscience."
28 Yet if anyone should be saying to you, "This is a sacred sacrifice,do not eat, because of that one who divulges it, and conscience."
29 Yet conscience, I am saying, not that of yourself, but that of another. For why is my freedom being decided by another's conscience?
30 If I, with gratitude, am partaking, why am I being calumniated for that for which I am giving thanks?
31 Then, whether you are eating or drinking, or anything you are doing, do all for the glory of God."
32 And become not a stumbling block to Jews as well as to Greeks and to the ecclesia of God,
33 according as I also am pleasing all in all things, not seeking my own expedience, but that of the many, that they may be saved."