1 Corinthians 10:14-30

14Therefore, my dearly loved ones, flee from idolatry.

15I speak as to sensible people—judge for yourselves what I say.

16The cup of blessing that we bless—isn’t it a sharing of Messiah’s blood? The bread which we break—isn’t it a sharing of Messiah’s body?

17Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body—for we all partake of the one bread.

18Consider physical Israel. Those who eat the sacrifices—aren’t they partners in the altar?

19What am I saying then—that an idol sacrifice is anything, or that an idol is anything?

20No, I’m saying that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God, and I don’t want you to become partners with demons.

21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

23“Everything is permitted”—but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permitted”—but not everything builds up.

24Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

25Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, without raising questions of conscience.

26For “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”

27If an unbeliever invites you over and you want to go, eat whatever is set before you, without raising questions of conscience.

28But if anyone says to you, “This is from an idol sacrifice,” do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience—

29not your own conscience, I mean, but the other person’s. For why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?

30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I give thanks for?