| 1. | For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; | 
| 2. | and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; | 
| 3. | and did all eat the same spiritual food; | 
| 4. | and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ. | 
| 5. | Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. | 
| 6. | Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. | 
| 7. | Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. | 
| 8. | Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. | 
| 9. | Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents. | 
| 10. | Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer. | 
| 11. | Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. | 
| 12. | Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. | 
| 13. | There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it. | 
| 14. | Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. | 
| 15. | I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. | 
| 16. | The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ? | 
| 17. | seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread. | 
| 18. | Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that eat the sacrifices communion with the altar? | 
| 19. | What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? | 
| 20. | But `I say', that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons. | 
| 21. | Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons. | 
| 22. | Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? | 
| 23. | All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify. | 
| 24. | Let no man seek his own, but `each' his neighbor's `good'. | 
| 25. | Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake, | 
| 26. | for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. | 
| 27. | If one of them that believe not biddeth you `to a feast', and ye are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake. | 
| 28. | But if any man say unto you, This hath been offered in sacrifice, eat not, for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: | 
| 29. | conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other's; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience? | 
| 30. | If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? | 
| 31. | Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. | 
| 32. | Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God: | 
| 33. | even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the `profit' of the many, that they may be saved. |