Thematic Bible
1 Corinthians 10:1 (show verse)
For I would have you remember, brethren, how our forefathers were all of them sheltered by the cloud, and all got safely through the Red Sea.
1 Corinthians 10:2 (show verse)
All were baptized in the cloud and in the sea to be followers of Moses.
1 Corinthians 10:3 (show verse)
All ate the same spiritual food,
1 Corinthians 10:4 (show verse)
and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they long drank the water that flowed from the spiritual rock that went with them--and that rock was the Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:5 (show verse)
But with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were laid low in the Desert.
1 Corinthians 10:6 (show verse)
And in this they became a warning to us, to teach us not to be eager, as they were eager, in pursuit of what is evil.
1 Corinthians 10:7 (show verse)
And you must not be worshippers of idols, as some of them were. For it is written, "The People sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance."
1 Corinthians 10:8 (show verse)
Nor may we be fornicators, like some of them who committed fornication and on a single day 23,000 of them fell dead.
1 Corinthians 10:9 (show verse)
And do not let us test the Lord too far, as some of them tested Him and were destroyed by the serpents.
1 Corinthians 10:10 (show verse)
And do not be discontented, as some of them were, and they were destroyed by the Destroyer.
1 Corinthians 10:11 (show verse)
All this kept happening to them with a figurative meaning; but it was put on record by way of admonition to us upon whom the ends of the Ages have come.
1 Corinthians 10:12 (show verse)
So then let him who thinks he is standing securely beware of falling.
1 Corinthians 10:13 (show verse)
No temptation has you in its power but such as is common to human nature; and God is faithful and will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. But, when the temptation comes, He will also provide the way of escape; so that you may be able to bear it.
1 Corinthians 10:14 (show verse)
Therefore, my dear friends, avoid all connection with the worship of idols.
1 Corinthians 10:15 (show verse)
I speak as to men of sense: judge for yourselves of what I say.
1 Corinthians 10:16 (show verse)
The cup of blessing, which we bless, does it not mean a joint-participation in the blood of Christ? The loaf of bread which we break, does it not mean a joint-participation in the body of Christ?
1 Corinthians 10:17 (show verse)
Since there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; we, all of us, share in that one loaf.
1 Corinthians 10:18 (show verse)
Look at the Israelites--the nation and their ritual. Are not those who eat the sacrifices joint-partakers in the altar?
1 Corinthians 10:19 (show verse)
Do I mean that a thing sacrificed to an idol is what it claims to be, or that an idol is a real thing?
1 Corinthians 10:20 (show verse)
No, but that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, not to God; and I would not have you have fellowship with one another through the demons.
1 Corinthians 10:21 (show verse)
You cannot drink the Lord's cup and the cup of demons: you cannot be joint-partakers both in the table of the Lord and in the table of demons.
1 Corinthians 10:22 (show verse)
Or are we actually arousing the Lord to jealousy. Are we stronger than He is?
1 Corinthians 10:23 (show verse)
Everything is allowable, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable, but everything does not build others up.
1 Corinthians 10:24 (show verse)
Let no one be for ever seeking his own good, but let each seek that of his fellow man.
1 Corinthians 10:25 (show verse)
Anything that is for sale in the meat market, eat, and ask no questions for conscience' sake;
1 Corinthians 10:26 (show verse)
for the earth is the Lord's, and all that it contains.
1 Corinthians 10:27 (show verse)
If an unbeliever gives you an invitation and you are disposed to accept it, eat whatever is put before you, and ask no questions for conscience' sake.
1 Corinthians 10:28 (show verse)
But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice;" abstain from eating it--out of respect for him who warned you, and, as before, for conscience' sake.
1 Corinthians 10:29 (show verse)
But now I mean his conscience, not your own. "Why, on what ground," you may object, "is the question of my liberty of action to be decided by a conscience not my own?
1 Corinthians 10:30 (show verse)
If, so far as I am concerned, I partake with a grateful heart, why am I to be found fault with in regard to a thing for which I give thanks?"
1 Corinthians 10:31 (show verse)
Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:32 (show verse)
Do not be causes of stumbling either to Jews or to Gentiles, nor to the Church of God.
1 Corinthians 10:33 (show verse)
That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the hope that they may be saved.