1Cor 10 | ISV | STEP | Warnings About Idolatry For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the fact that all of our ancestors were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea,

1 Corinthians 10

1 Warnings About Idolatry

For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the fact that all of our ancestors were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea,Exod 13:21; 14:22; 40:34; Num 9:18; 14:14; 33:8; Deut 1:33; Josh 4:23; Neh 9:12, 19; Ps 78:13-14; 105:39 2 and they all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and they all ate the same spiritual food,Exod 16:15, 35; Neh 9:15, 20, 35; Ps 78:24 4 and they all drank the same spiritual drink, for they continually drank from the spiritual Rock that went with them, and that Rock was Christ.Exod 17:6; Num 20:11; Ps 78:15 5 But God wasn't pleased with most of them, and so they were struck down in the wilderness.Num 14:29, 32, 35; 26:64-65; Ps 106:26; Heb 3:17; Jude 1:5

6 Now these things became examples for us so that we won't set our hearts on evil as they did.Num 11:4, 33-34; Ps 106:14 7 Let us stop being idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to play.” ^{▼▼Exod 32:6}Exod 32:6; 1Cor 10:14 8 Let us stop sinning sexually, as some of them were doing, and on a single day 23,000 fell dead.Num 25:1, 9; Ps 106:29; 1Cor 6:18; Rev 2:14 9 Let us stop putting the Lord ^{▼▼Other mss. read Christ} to the test, as some of them were doing, and were destroyed by snakes.Exod 17:2, 7; Num 21:5-6; Deut 6:16; Ps 78:18, 56, 7; 95:9; 106:14 10 You must stop complaining, as some of them were doing, and were destroyed by the destroying angel.Exod 12:23; 16:2; 17:2; Num 14:2, 29, 37; 2Sam 24:16; 1Chr 21:15 11 These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down as a warning for us in whom the climax of the ages has been realized.Rom 15:4; 1Cor 7:29; 9:10; Phil 4:5; Heb 10:25, 37; 1John 2:18

12 Therefore, the person who thinks he is standing securely should watch out that he does not fall.Rom 11:20 13 No temptation has overtaken you that is unusual for human beings. But God is faithful, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. Instead, along with the temptation he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to endure it.Ps 125:3; Jer 29:11; 1Cor 1:9; 2Pet 2:9

14 And so, my dear friends, keep on running away from idolatry.1Cor 10:7; 2Cor 6:17; 1John 5:21 15 I am talking to sensible people. Decide for yourselves what I am saying.1Cor 8:1 16 The cup of blessing that we bless is a sign of our sharing in the blood of Christ, isn't it? The bread that we break is a sign of our sharing in the body of Christ, isn't it?Matt 26:26-28; Acts 2:42, 46; 1Cor 11:23-24 17 Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, because all of us partake of the one loaf.Rom 12:5; 1Cor 12:27

18 Look at the Israelites from a human point of view. ^{▼▼Lit. Israel according to the flesh} Those who eat the sacrifices share in what is on the altar, don't they?Lev 3:3; 7:15; Rom 4:1, 12; 2Cor 11:18; Gal 6:16 19 Am I suggesting that an offering made to idols means anything, or that an idol itself means anything?1Cor 8:4 20 Hardly! What they offer, they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partners with demons.Lev 17:7; Deut 32:17; Ps 106:37; Rev 9:20 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot eat at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons.Deut 32:38; 2Cor 6:15-16 22 Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he is, are we?Deut 32:21; Ezek 22:14

23 All to the Glory of GodEverything is permissible, but not everything is helpful. Everything is permissible, but not everything builds up.1Cor 6:12 24 No one should seek his own welfare, but rather his neighbor's.Rom 15:1-2; 1Cor 13:5; 15:33; Phil 2:4, 21

25 Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question about it on the ground of conscience,1Tim 4:4 26 for “the earth and everything in it belong to the Lord.” ^{▼▼Ps 24:1}Exod 19:5; Deut 10:14; Ps 24:1; 50:12; 1Cor 10:28 27 If an unbeliever invites you to his house and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, raising no question on the ground of conscience.Luke 10:7 28 However, if someone says to you, “This was offered in sacrifice,” don't eat it, both out of consideration for the one who told you and because of conscience.Deut 10:14; Ps 24:1; 1Cor 8:10, 12; 10:26 29 I mean, of course, his conscience, not yours. For why should my freedom be judged by someone else's conscience?Rom 14:16 30 If I eat with thankfulness, why should I be denounced because of what I am thankful for?Rom 14:6; 1Tim 4:3-4

31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.Col 3:17; 1Pet 4:11 32 Stop being ^{▼▼Or Don't be} stumbling blocks to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,Acts 20:28; Rom 14:13; 1Cor 8:13; 11:22; 2Cor 6:3; 1Tim 3:5 33 just as I myself try to please everybody in every way, not looking for my own advantage but for that of many people, so that they might be saved.Rom 15:2; 1Cor 9:19, 22, 24