10Verse 1Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the seaVerse 2—all were baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea—Verse 3and all ate the same spiritual foodVerse 4and drank the same spiritual drink; because they kept drinking from a spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that Rock was the Christ.+Verse 5For all that, God was not pleased with most of them—their carcasses were scattered around the desert!+
Examples
Verse 6Now these things became examples for us, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.Verse 7And do not become idolaters, just like some of them; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to amuse themselves.”+Verse 8And let us not fornicate, just as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand died!+Verse 9Neither let us test the Christ, just as also some of them did—and were destroyed by the snakes!+Verse 10And do not grumble, just as also some of them did—and were executed by the destroyer!+Verse 11Now all these things happened to them as examples and were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends+of the ages have come.Verse 12So then, let him who thinks he stands be careful that he does not fall!Verse 13No testing+has overtaken you except what is common to man, and God is competent,+who will not allow you to be tested beyond what you can stand, but with the testing will also provide the way out, that you may be able to endure it.+
Eschew idolatry!
Verse 14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry!Verse 15I speak as to wise men; judge for yourselves what I say.+Verse 16The cup of blessing that we bless,+is it not a sharing of the blood of Christ?+The bread that we break, is it not a sharing of the body of Christ?+Verse 17Since the loaf is one, we, the many, are one body, because we all partake of that single loaf.+Verse 18Consider the physical Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
Idol = demon
Verse 19So what am I getting at? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?Verse 20Rather, that the things pagans sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to become participants with the demons.+Verse 21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons.Verse 22Are we going to provoke the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
About conscience
Verse 23All things are ‘permissible’ for me,+but not all things are expedient. All things are ‘permissible’ for me, but not all things edify.Verse 24Let no one seek his own, but each one the other's well-being.Verse 25Eat whatever is being sold in the meat market, asking no question for the sake of conscience;Verse 26since “the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness.”+Verse 27If some unbeliever invites you and you decide to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.Verse 28But if anyone says, “This was offered to idols,” do not eat it for the sake of the speaker and of the conscience; since “the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness.”+Verse 29‘Conscience’ I say, not your own but that of the other. Do all to the glory of God Now just why should my freedom be judged by another's conscience?Verse 30If I partake with thanks, why be slandered over something I give thanks for?+Verse 31Therefore, whether you eat or you drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.+Verse 32Give no offense, either to Jews or to Greeks or to the Church of God+Verse 33—even as I try to please everyone in every way, not seeking my own profit but that of the many, that they may be saved.