1I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.[ † ]Exodus 13:21-22Psalms 105:39Exodus 14:21-22, 29Nehemiah 9:11Psalms 66:6 2They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3They all ate the same spiritual food[ † ]Exodus 16:4-15, 35Deuteronomy 8:3Nehemiah 9:15-20Psalms 78:24John 6:31 4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.[ † ]Exodus 17:5-7Numbers 20:11Psalms 78:15 5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.[ † ]Numbers 14:29-37Numbers 26:65Hebrews 3:17Jude 5
6These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.[ † ]Numbers 11:4-34Psalms 106:14 7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”[ † ]Exodus 32:41 Corinthians 5:111 Corinthians 10:14Exodus 32:61 Corinthians 15:32 8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.[ † ]Revelation 2:14Numbers 25:1-9Psalms 106:29 9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.[ † ]Exodus 17:2-7Numbers 21:6-9 10And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.[ † ]Exodus 16:2Numbers 14:37Exodus 12:232 Samuel 24:161 Chronicles 21:15Hebrews 11:28
11Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.[ † ]Romans 15:4Philippians 4:5 12So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.[ † ]Romans 11:20 13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.[ † ]1 Corinthians 1:9Psalms 125:3
14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.[ † ]2 Corinthians 6:17 15I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say.[ † ]1 Corinthians 8:1 16Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?[ † ]Matthew 26:26-28Mark 14:23Luke 22:201 Corinthians 11:25Matthew 26:26Luke 22:19Acts 2:421 Corinthians 11:23 17Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.[ † ]Romans 12:51 Corinthians 12:12-27Ephesians 4:4-16Colossians 3:15
18Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?[ † ]Romans 4:12Romans 4:1Leviticus 3:3Leviticus 7:6-14Deuteronomy 12:17 19Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?[ † ]1 Corinthians 8:4 20No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.[ † ]Leviticus 17:7Deuteronomy 32:17Psalms 106:37Galatians 4:8Revelation 9:20 21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.[ † ]2 Corinthians 6:15-16Deuteronomy 32:381 Corinthians 11:23-29 22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?[ † ]Deuteronomy 32:21Ezekiel 22:14
23“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.[ † ]1 Corinthians 6:12 24No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.[ † ]Philippians 2:4
25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,[ † ]1 Timothy 4:4 26for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”[ † ]Exodus 19:5Psalms 24:1Psalms 50:121 Timothy 4:4
27If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.[ † ]Luke 10:7-8 28But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—[ † ]1 Corinthians 8:7-10, 12Deuteronomy 10:14Psalms 24:1 29the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?[ † ]Romans 14:161 Corinthians 9:19 30If I partake in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?[ † ]Romans 14:6
31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.[ † ]Colossians 3:171 Peter 4:11 32Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—[ † ]Romans 14:13 33as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.[ † ]Romans 15:21 Corinthians 9:22Galatians 1:10