Thematic Bible
1 Corinthians 10:1 (show verse)
For I would not have you, brothers, to be ignorant of the fact that though our forefathers were all made safe by the cloud, and all went securely through the sea, and in the cloud and the sea
1 Corinthians 10:2 (show verse)
they all allowed themselves to be baptized as followers of Moses,
1 Corinthians 10:3 (show verse)
and all ate the same spiritual food,
1 Corinthians 10:4 (show verse)
and all drank the same spiritual drink -- for they continued to drink the water from the spiritual Rock which accompanied them, and that Rock was the Christ --
1 Corinthians 10:5 (show verse)
still with the most of them God was not at all satisfied, for He allowed them to be laid low in the desert.
1 Corinthians 10:6 (show verse)
Now all these things occurred as warnings to us, to keep us from hankering after what is evil, in the ways they did.
1 Corinthians 10:7 (show verse)
Now stop being idolaters, as some of them were, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance."
1 Corinthians 10:8 (show verse)
Let us stop practicing immorality, as some of them did, and on one day twenty-three thousand fell dead.
1 Corinthians 10:9 (show verse)
Let us stop trying the Lord's patience, as some of them did, and for it were destroyed by the snakes.
1 Corinthians 10:10 (show verse)
You must stop grumbling, as some of them did, and for it were destroyed by the destroying angel.
1 Corinthians 10:11 (show verse)
Those things continued to befall them as warnings to others, and they were written down for the purpose of instructing us, in whose lives the climax of the ages has been reached.
1 Corinthians 10:12 (show verse)
So the man who thinks he stands securely must be on the lookout not to fall.
1 Corinthians 10:13 (show verse)
No temptation has taken hold of you but what is common to human nature. And God is to be trusted not to let you be tempted beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to make a way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.
1 Corinthians 10:14 (show verse)
So then, my dearly beloved, keep on running from idolatry.
1 Corinthians 10:15 (show verse)
I am speaking to sensible men; decide for yourselves about what I say.
1 Corinthians 10:16 (show verse)
Is not the consecrated cup which we consecrate a sign of our sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the loaf which we break a sign of our sharing in the body of Christ?
1 Corinthians 10:17 (show verse)
Because there is only one loaf, so we, though many, are only one body, for we all partake of one loaf.
1 Corinthians 10:18 (show verse)
Look at the Israelites in their practices. Are not those who eat the sacrifices in spiritual fellowship with the altar?
1 Corinthians 10:19 (show verse)
Then what do I mean? That the sacrifice to an idol is a reality, or that an idol itself is a reality? Of course not!
1 Corinthians 10:20 (show verse)
I mean that what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be in fellowship with demons.
1 Corinthians 10:21 (show verse)
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot eat at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons.
1 Corinthians 10:22 (show verse)
Or, are we trying to incite the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?
1 Corinthians 10:23 (show verse)
Everything is permissible for people, but not everything is good for them. Everything is permissible for people, but not everything builds up their personality.
1 Corinthians 10:24 (show verse)
No one should always be looking after his own welfare, but also that of his neighbor.
1 Corinthians 10:25 (show verse)
As a rule eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question about it for conscience' sake,
1 Corinthians 10:26 (show verse)
for the earth and everything that it contains belong to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 10:27 (show verse)
If some unbelieving heathen invites you to his house, and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question for conscience' sake.
1 Corinthians 10:28 (show verse)
But if someone says to you, "This meat has been offered as a heathen sacrifice," make it your rule not to eat it, for the sake of the man who warned you and for conscience' sake;
1 Corinthians 10:29 (show verse)
I mean his conscience, not yours. Why then should my personal freedom be limited by another's conscience?
1 Corinthians 10:30 (show verse)
If I give thanks and thus partake of food, why am I to be blamed for that for which I give thanks?
1 Corinthians 10:31 (show verse)
So if you eat or drink or do anything else, do everything to honor God.
1 Corinthians 10:32 (show verse)
Stop being stumbling blocks to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,
1 Corinthians 10:33 (show verse)
just as I myself am in the habit of pleasing everybody in everything, not aiming at my own welfare but at that of as many people as possible, in order that they may be saved.