1 Corinthians 10:14–28

¹⁴Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols.

¹⁵I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say.

¹⁶The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord?

¹⁷For we, being many, are one bread, one body: all that partake of one bread.

¹⁸Behold Israel according to the flesh. Are not they that eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

¹⁹What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing?

²⁰But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.

²¹You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord and of the table of devils.

²²Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.

²³All things are lawful for me: but all things do not edify.

²⁴Let no man seek his own, but that which is another’s.

²⁵Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat: asking no question for conscience’ sake.

²⁶The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof.

²⁷If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you be willing to go: eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for conscience’ sake.

²⁸But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols: do not eat of it, for his sake that told it and for conscience’ sake.