1 Corinthians 10:5-22

5yet 1God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

6But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

7Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

9Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents.

10Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

11Now all these things happened to them [as] types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

12So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

13No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and 2God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able [to bear], but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that [ye] should be able to bear [it].

14Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

15I speak as to intelligent [persons]: do ye judge what I say.

16The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not [the] communion of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not [the] communion of the body of the Christ?

17Because we, [being] many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf.

18See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

19What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

20But that what [the nations] sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to 3God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons.

21Ye cannot drink [the] Lord's cup, and [the] cup of demons: ye cannot partake of [the] Lord's table, and of [the] table of demons.

22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?