1<\/sup>FOR I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud, and in the sea:<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>And did all eat the same spiritual food,<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>And all drank the same spiritual drink; (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.)<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things as they also coveted.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Neither let us tempt Christ: as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Neither do you murmur: as some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Wherefore he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>The chalice of benediction, which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ ? And the bread, which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord ?<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>For we, being many, are one bread, one body, all that partake of one bread.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar ?<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>What then ? Do I say, that what is offered in sacrifice to idols, is any thing ? Or, that the idol is any thing ?<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord, and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of devils.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>All things are lawful for me, but all things do not edify.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>Let no man seek his own, but that which is another's.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat; asking no question for conscience' sake.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you will be willing to go; eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols, do not eat of it for his sake that told it, and for conscience' sake.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>Conscience, I say, not thy own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience ?<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks ?<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of God.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>Be without offence to the Jews, and to the Gentiles, and to the church of God:<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself, but to many, that may be saved.<\/span> <\/p>\n