15. I speak as to sensible people—judge for yourselves what I say.
16. The cup of blessing that we bless—isn’t it a sharing of Messiah’s blood? The bread which we break—isn’t it a sharing of Messiah’s body?
17. Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body—for we all partake of the one bread.
18. Consider physical Israel. Those who eat the sacrifices—aren’t they partners in the altar?
19. What am I saying then—that an idol sacrifice is anything, or that an idol is anything?
20. No, I’m saying that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God, and I don’t want you to become partners with demons.
21. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
22. Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?
23. “Everything is permitted”—but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permitted”—but not everything builds up.
24. Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
25. Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, without raising questions of conscience.
26. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”
27. If an unbeliever invites you over and you want to go, eat whatever is set before you, without raising questions of conscience.