¹⁵As to wise men I speak—judge ye what I say: ¹⁶The cup of the blessing that we bless—is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? the bread that we break—is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ? ¹⁷because one bread, one body, are we the many—for we all of the one bread do partake. ¹⁸See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar? ¹⁹what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything?— ²⁰no, but that the things that the nations sacrifice—they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons. ²¹Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons; ²²do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

²³All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up; ²⁴let no one seek his own—but each another’s. ²⁵Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience, ²⁶for the Lord’s is the earth, and its fulness; ²⁷and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience; ²⁸and if any one may say to you, ‘This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,’—do not eat, because of that one who shewed it, and of the conscience, for the Lord’s is the earth and its fulness:

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

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