¹⁴Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. ¹⁵I am speaking as to sensible people; you judge what I am saying. ¹⁶The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? ¹⁷Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share from the one bread. ¹⁸Consider Israel according to the flesh: are not the ones who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar? ¹⁹Therefore, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? ²⁰No, but that the things which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons. ²¹You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to share the table of the Lord and the table of demons. ²²Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he is, are we?^*

Freedom in Christ

²³All things are permitted, but not all things are profitable. All things are permitted, but not all things build up. ²⁴Let no one seek his own good^b but the good of the other. ²⁵Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, asking no questions^c for the sake of the conscience, ²⁶for “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”^d ²⁷If any of the unbelievers invites you, and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, asking no questions^e for the sake of the conscience. ²⁸But if someone says to you, “This is offered to idols,” do not eat it, for the sake of that one who informed you and the conscience.

Read in Logos

1 Corinthians 10:17: Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

Footnotes

*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here
bLiterally “the - of himself”; “good” is implied
cLiterally “questioning nothing”
dA quotation from Ps 24:1, and an allusion to Ps 50:12; 89:11
eLiterally “questioning nothing”