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    1 Corinthians 10

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    The people receive the cloud, the sea, the same spiritual food, and a rock that walks with them—and still most of them are struck down in the wilderness. Privilege, here, arrives in a crowd and leaves in a very different one.

    The accompanied rock and the wildernessvv. 1–14

    The forefathers pass through cloud and sea together, are baptized into Moses, and eat and drink together from a spiritual rock that accompanies them—an unusually mobile piece of geology, identified as Christ. Yet the shared wonders do not spare most of them. Some crave evil things, some turn to idolatry, some test Christ, and some complain; the chapter supplies, almost briskly, a death toll of twenty-three thousand in one day. The old events become examples and warnings, while the apparently steady are told to take care lest they fall. Then the warning narrows to its plain conclusion: flee from idolatry.

    Two tables, not onevv. 15–22

    The argument now moves from the wilderness to the table. The blessed cup and broken bread are participation in Christ; one loaf makes many into one body. Israel’s worshippers likewise share in the altar through the sacrifices they eat. Food offered to an idol is not treated as a harmless culinary puzzle: the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, and the Lord’s cup and the demons’ cup are declared incompatible. The closing questions have the pleasing severity of a locked door: is the Lord being provoked, and is anyone stronger than he is?

    The market, the invitation, and the consciencevv. 23–33

    The final movement is less about forbidden ingredients than about what a meal does to other people. Meat from the market may be eaten without an investigation; an unbeliever’s invitation may be accepted in the same fashion. But once someone identifies the food as offered to idols, abstaining becomes the courteous complication, for the sake of that person’s conscience rather than one’s own. Freedom is not abolished, merely made to share a table with the good of others. The chapter ends with eating, drinking, and everything else gathered under the glory of God, with no stumbling block placed before Jews, Greeks, or the church of God.

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    1. 1 Cor 10:1I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.

    2. 1 Cor 10:2They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

    3. 1 Cor 10:3They all ate the same spiritual food

    4. 1 Cor 10:4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

    5. 1 Cor 10:5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

    6. 1 Cor 10:6These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

    7. 1 Cor 10:7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”

    8. 1 Cor 10:8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

    9. 1 Cor 10:9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.

    10. 1 Cor 10:10And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

    11. 1 Cor 10:11Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

    12. 1 Cor 10:12So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.

    13. 1 Cor 10:13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

    14. 1 Cor 10:14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

    15. 1 Cor 10:15I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say.

    16. 1 Cor 10:16Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?

    17. 1 Cor 10:17Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.

    18. 1 Cor 10:18Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?

    19. 1 Cor 10:19Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

    20. 1 Cor 10:20No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.

    21. 1 Cor 10:21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.

    22. 1 Cor 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

    23. 1 Cor 10:23“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.

    24. 1 Cor 10:24No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.

    25. 1 Cor 10:25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,

    26. 1 Cor 10:26for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”

    27. 1 Cor 10:27If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.

    28. 1 Cor 10:28But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—

    29. 1 Cor 10:29the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?

    30. 1 Cor 10:30If I partake in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

    31. 1 Cor 10:31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.

    32. 1 Cor 10:32Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

    33. 1 Cor 10:33as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.

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    • 132 Peter 2:9if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
    • 132 Timothy 4:18And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
    • 31Colossians 3:17And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
    • 132 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
    • 31Colossians 3:23Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, as for the Lord and not for men,
    • 131 Peter 5:8–9Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
    • 13Hebrews 12:4In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
    • 131 Thessalonians 5:24The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
    • 13Romans 8:28–39And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
    • 132 Corinthians 12:8–10Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
    • 13Ephesians 6:12–13For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
    • 311 Peter 4:11If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
    • 13Luke 22:46“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”
    • 13Jeremiah 29:11For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
    • 13Daniel 3:17If the God whom we serve exists, then He is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace and from your hand, O king.
    • 11Romans 15:4For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

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