1 Corinthians 10:1–14:40
1 For aI do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all bunder the cloud and all cpassed through the sea;
2 and all were abaptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 and all aate the same spiritual food;
4 and all adrank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was 1Christ.
5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for athey were laid low in the wilderness.
6 Now these things happened as aexamples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as bthey also craved.
7 Do not be aidolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, “bThe people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to cplay.”
8 Nor let us act immorally, as asome of them 1did, and btwenty-three thousand fell in one day.
9 Nor let us try the Lord, as asome of them 1did, and were destroyed by the serpents.
10 Nor agrumble, as some of them 1did, and bwere destroyed by the cdestroyer.
11 Now these things happened to them as an aexample, and bthey were written for our instruction, upon whom cthe ends of the ages have come.
12 Therefore let him who athinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.
13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and aGod is faithful, who will not allow you to be btempted 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.
14 Therefore, my abeloved, flee from bidolatry.
15 I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say.
16 Is not the acup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the 1bbread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?
17 Since there is one 1bread, we awho are many are one body; for we all partake of the one 1bread.
18 Look at 1the nation aIsrael; are not those who beat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?
19 What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or athat an idol is anything?
20 No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they asacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons.
21 aYou cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and bthe table of demons.
22 Or do we aprovoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not bstronger than He, are we?
23 aAll things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things bedify.
24 Let no one aseek his own good, but that of his 1neighbor.
25 aEat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience’ sake;
26 afor the earth is the Lord’s, and 1all it contains.
27 If aone of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, beat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience’ sake.
28 But aif 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;
29 I mean not your own conscience, but the other man’s; for awhy is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?
30 If I partake with thankfulness, awhy am I slandered concerning that for which I bgive thanks?
31 Whether, then, you eat or drink or awhatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
32 aGive no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to bthe church of God;
33 just as I also aplease all men in all things, bnot seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, cso that they may be saved.
1 aBe imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
2 Now aI praise you because you bremember me in everything and chold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.
3 But I want you to understand that 1Christ is the ahead of every man, and bthe man is the head of a woman, and God is the chead of 1Christ.
4 Every man who has something on his head while praying or aprophesying disgraces his head.
5 But every awoman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman 1whose head is bshaved.
6 For if a woman does not cover 1her head, let her also 2have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to 2have her hair cut off or 1her head shaved, let her cover 1her head.
7 For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the aimage and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
8 For aman 1does not originate from woman, but woman from man;
9 for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but awoman for the man’s sake.
10 Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
11 However, in the Lord, neither is woman 1independent of man, nor is man 1independent of woman.
12 For as the woman 1originates from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and aall things 2originate bfrom God.
13 aJudge 1for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,
15 but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering.
16 But if one is inclined to be contentious, awe have no 1other practice, nor have bthe churches of God.
17 But in giving this instruction, aI do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.
18 For, in the first place, when you come together 1as a church, I hear that 2adivisions exist among you; and in part I believe it.
19 For there amust also be factions among you, bso that those who are approved may become 1evident among you.
20 Therefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper,
21 for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and aanother is drunk.
22 What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the achurch of God and bshame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall cI praise you? In this I will not praise you.
23 For aI received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that bthe Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread;
24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
25 In the same way He took athe cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the bnew covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death auntil He comes.
27 Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be aguilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
28 But a man must aexamine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.
30 For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number 1asleep.
31 But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.
32 But when we are judged, we are adisciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with bthe world.
33 So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
34 If anyone is ahungry, let him eat bat home, so that you will not come together for judgment. The remaining matters I will carrange dwhen I come.
1 Now concerning aspiritual gifts, brethren, bI do not want you to be unaware.
2 aYou know that when you were pagans, you were bled astray to the cmute idols, however you were led.
3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking 1aby the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is 2baccursed”; and no one can say, “Jesus is cLord,” except 1aby the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there are avarieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.
6 There are varieties of effects, but the same aGod who works all things in all persons.
7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit afor the common good.
8 For to one is given the word of awisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of bknowledge according to the same Spirit;
9 to another afaith 1by the same Spirit, and to another bgifts of 2healing 1by the one Spirit,
10 and to another the 1effecting of 2amiracles, and to another bprophecy, and to another the 3cdistinguishing of spirits, to another various dkinds of tongues, and to another the einterpretation of tongues.
11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, adistributing to each one individually just as He wills.
12 For even aas the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, bso also is Christ.
13 For 1aby one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether bJews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to cdrink of one Spirit.
14 For athe body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason 1any the less a part of the body.
16 And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason 1any the less a part of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
18 But now God has aplaced the members, each one of them, in the body, bjust as He desired.
19 If they were all one member, where would the body be?
20 But now athere are many members, but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22 On the contrary, 1it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;
23 and those members of the body which we 1deem less honorable, 2on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,
24 whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked,