10. nor grumble, just as some of them grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
11. Now these things happened to those people as an example, but are written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
12. Therefore, the one who thinks that he stands must watch out lest he fall.
13. Temptation has not come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, so that you may be able to endure it.
14. Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
15. I am speaking as to sensible people; you judge what I am saying.
16. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
17. Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share from the one bread.
18. Consider Israel according to the flesh: are not the ones who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?
19. Therefore, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
20. No, but that the things which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons.
21. You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to share the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
22. Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he is, are we?
23. All things are permitted, but not all things are profitable. All things are permitted, but not all things build up.
24. Let no one seek his own good but the good of the other.
25. Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for the sake of the conscience,
26. for “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”