1 Corinthians 10–11

Chapter 10

Avoid Israel’s Mistakes

¹For ^aI do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all ^bunder the cloud and all ^cpassed through the sea;

²and all were ^abaptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

³and all ^aate the same spiritual food;

⁴and all ^adrank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was ¹Christ.

⁵Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for ^athey were laid low in the wilderness.

⁶Now these things happened as ^aexamples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as ^bthey also craved.

⁷Do 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.”

⁸Nor let us act immorally, as ^asome of them ¹did, and ^btwenty-three thousand fell in one day.

⁹Nor let us try the Lord, as ^asome of them ¹did, and were destroyed by the serpents.

¹⁰Nor ^agrumble, as some of them ¹did, and ^bwere destroyed by the ^cdestroyer.

¹¹Now these things happened to them as an ^aexample, and ^bthey were written for our instruction, upon whom ^cthe ends of the ages have come.

¹²Therefore let him who ^athinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.

¹³No 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.

¹⁴Therefore, my ^abeloved, flee from ^bidolatry.

¹⁵I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say.

¹⁶Is 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?

¹⁷Since there is one ¹bread, we ^awho are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.

¹⁸Look at ¹the nation ^aIsrael; are not those who ^beat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?

¹⁹What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or ^athat an idol is anything?

²⁰No, 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.

^21aYou 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.

²²Or do we ^aprovoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not ^bstronger than He, are we?

^23aAll things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things ^bedify.

²⁴Let no one ^aseek his own good, but that of his ¹neighbor.

^25aEat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience’ sake;

^26afor the earth is the Lord’s, and ¹all it contains.

²⁷If ^aone of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, ^beat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience’ sake.

²⁸But ^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;

²⁹I mean not your own conscience, but the other man’s; for ^awhy is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?

³⁰If I partake with thankfulness, ^awhy am I slandered concerning that for which I ^bgive thanks?

³¹Whether, then, you eat or drink or ^awhatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

^32aGive no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to ^bthe church of God;

³³just 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.

Chapter 11

Christian Order

^1aBe imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

²Now ^aI praise you because you ^bremember me in everything and ^chold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

³But 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 Christ.

⁴Every man who has something on his head while praying or ^aprophesying disgraces his head.

⁵But 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.

⁶For 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 have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her cover her head.

⁷For 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.

⁸For ^aman ¹does not originate from woman, but woman from man;

⁹for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but ^awoman for the man’s sake.

¹⁰Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

¹¹However, in the Lord, neither is woman ¹independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

¹²For as the woman ¹originates from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and ^aall things ²originate ^bfrom God.

^13aJudge ¹for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

¹⁴Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

¹⁵but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

¹⁶But if one is inclined to be contentious, ^awe have no ¹other practice, nor have ^bthe churches of God.

¹⁷But in giving this instruction, ^aI do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

¹⁸For, in the first place, when you come together ¹as a church, I hear that ^2adivisions exist among you; and in part I believe it.

¹⁹For there ^amust also be factions among you, ^bso that those who are approved may become ¹evident among you.

²⁰Therefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper,

²¹for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and ^aanother is drunk.

²²What! 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.

The Lord’s Supper

²³For ^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;

²⁴and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

²⁵In 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.”

²⁶For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death ^auntil He comes.

²⁷Therefore 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.

²⁸But a man must ^aexamine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

²⁹For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.

³⁰For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number ^1asleep.

³¹But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.

³²But when we are judged, we are ^adisciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with ^bthe world.

³³So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

³⁴If 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.