1 Corinthians 10:14-28

14So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

15I am speaking as to sensible people. Judge for yourselves what I am saying.

16The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?

17Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, since all of us share the one bread.

18Consider the people of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

19What am I saying then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

20No, but I do say that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons!

21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

22Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

23“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up.

24No one is to seek his own good, but the good of the other person.

25Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, without raising questions for the sake of conscience,

26since the earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it.

27If any of the unbelievers invites you over and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, without raising questions for the sake of conscience.

28But if someone says to you, “This is food from a sacrifice,” do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience.