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1 Corinthians 10 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Avoid Israel's Mistakes

1Co 10:1For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea;
1Co 10:2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1Co 10:3and all ate the same spiritual food;
1Co 10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was [fn]Christ.
1Co 10:5Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.
1Co 10:6Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.
1Co 10:7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, “THE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND DRINK, AND STOOD UP TO PLAY.”
1Co 10:8Nor let us act immorally, as some of them [fn]did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
1Co 10:9Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them [fn]did, and were destroyed by the serpents.
1Co 10:10Nor grumble, as some of them [fn]did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
1Co 10:11Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
1Co 10:12Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.
1Co 10:13No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
1Co 10:14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
1Co 10:15I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say.
1Co 10:16Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the [fn]bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?
1Co 10:17Since there is one [fn]bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one [fn]bread.
1Co 10:18Look at [fn]the nation Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?
1Co 10:19What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
1Co 10:20No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons.
1Co 10:21You 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.
1Co 10:22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?
(cf. Psa 24:1 )
1Co 10:23All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify.
1Co 10:24Let no one seek his own good, but that of his [fn]neighbor.
1Co 10:25Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience’ sake;
1Co 10:26FOR THE EARTH IS THE LORDS, AND [fn]ALL IT CONTAINS.
1Co 10:27If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience’ sake.
1Co 10:28But if anyone says to you, “This is meat sacrificed to idols,” do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience’ sake;
1Co 10:29I mean not your own conscience, but the other man’s; for why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?
1Co 10:30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks?
1Co 10:31Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1Co 10:32Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;
1Co 10:33just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.
NASB95 Footnotes
I.e. the Messiah
Literally: acted immorally
Literally: made trial
Literally: grumbled
Literally: loaf
Literally: loaf
Literally: Israel according to the flesh
Literally: the other
Literally: its fullness
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