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These references come from the
New International Version of the bible (www.thebible.com).
As time permits, I will add several other biblical versions as
there are often interesting nuances in the translations.
1 Corinthians 10
1
For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our
forefathers were all under
the
cloud and that they all passed through the sea.
2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the
sea.
3 They all ate the same spiritual food
4
and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock
that accompanied
them, and that rock was Christ.
5
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were
scattered over the
desert.
6
Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts
on evil things
as
they did.
7 Do
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 pagan revelry."
8 We
should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did--and in one day
twenty-
three thousand of them died.
9 We should not test the Lord, as some of them did--and were
killed by snakes.
10 And do not grumble, as some of them did--and were killed
by the destroying angel.
11 These
things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for
us,
on
whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that
you don't fall!
13 No
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 a way out so that you can stand up under it.
14 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I
say.
16 Is not
the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the
blood of
Christ?
And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
17 Because
there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of
the one
loaf.
18 Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the
sacrifices participate in the altar?
19 Do I mean then that a sacrifice offered to an idol is
anything, or that an idol is anything?
20 No, but
the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not
want you
to be
participants with demons.
21 You
cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot
have a part in
both
the Lord's table and the table of demons.
22 Are we trying to arouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we
stronger than he?
23
"Everything is permissible"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything
is permissible"--
but not
everything is constructive.
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