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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Corinthians 10 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_corinthians/10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_corinthians/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > 1 Corinthians 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_corinthians/9.htm" title="1 Corinthians 9">◄</a> 1 Corinthians 10 <a href="../1_corinthians/11.htm" title="1 Corinthians 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/1_corinthians/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Lessons from Israel’s Idolatry</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>All of them ate the same spiritual food, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>These things happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say, “The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Nor should we put Christ<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> to the test, as some of them did and then died from snakebites. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And don’t grumble as some of them did, and then were destroyed by the angel of death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You are reasonable people. Decide for yourselves if what I am saying is true. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When we bless the cup at the Lord’s Table, aren’t we sharing in the blood of Christ? And when we break the bread, aren’t we sharing in the body of Christ? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And though we are many, we all eat from one loaf of bread, showing that we are one body. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Think about the people of Israel. Weren’t they united by eating the sacrifices at the altar?</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>What am I trying to say? Am I saying that food offered to idols has some significance, or that idols are real gods? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>No, not at all. I am saying that these sacrifices are offered to demons, not to God. And I don’t want you to participate with demons. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord’s Table and at the table of demons, too. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>What? Do we dare to rouse the Lord’s jealousy? Do you think we are stronger than he is?</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>You say, “I am allowed to do anything”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a>—but not everything is good for you. You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is beneficial. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Don’t be concerned for your own good but for the good of others.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So you may eat any meat that is sold in the marketplace without raising questions of conscience. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For “the earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>If someone who isn’t a believer asks you home for dinner, accept the invitation if you want to. Eat whatever is offered to you without raising questions of conscience. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>(But suppose someone tells you, “This meat was offered to an idol.” Don’t eat it, out of consideration for the conscience of the one who told you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>It might not be a matter of conscience for you, but it is for the other person.) For why should my freedom be limited by what someone else thinks? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If I can thank God for the food and enjoy it, why should I be condemned for eating it?</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Don’t give offense to Jews or Gentiles<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> or the church of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>I, too, try to please everyone in everything I do. I don’t just do what is best for me; I do what is best for others so that many may be saved. <A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:1 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">brothers.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:7 </span><span class="ft">Exod 32:6.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:9 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">the Lord.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:23 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">All things are lawful;</span><span class="ft"> also in 10:23b.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:26 </span><span class="ft">Ps 24:1.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:32 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">or Greeks.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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