1 Corinthians 10:14–22

¹⁴So then, my dear friends, keep away from the worship of idols. ¹⁵I speak to you as sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. ^16*The cup we use in the Lord’s Supper and for which we give thanks to God: when we drink from it, we are sharing in the blood of Christ. And the bread we break: when we eat it, we are sharing in the body of Christ. ¹⁷Because there is the one loaf of bread, all of us, though many, are one body, for we all share the same loaf.

^18*Consider the people of Israel; those who eat what is offered in sacrifice share in the altar’s service to God. ¹⁹Do I imply, then, that an idol or the food offered to it really amounts to anything? ^20*No! What I am saying is that what is sacrificed on pagan altars is offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be partners with demons. ²¹You cannot drink from the Lord’s cup and also from the cup of demons; you cannot eat at the Lord’s table and also at the table of demons. ^22*Or do we want to make the Lord jealous? Do we think that we are stronger than he?