Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; Exo 14:29Neh 9:11-12Psa 78:13-14Psa 105:39Psa 106:7-11Exo 13:21-22Exo 14:19-221Co 14:38 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; Heb 3:2-31Co 1:13-16Exo 14:31Rom 6:3Gal 3:27Jhn 9:28-29 and all ate the same spiritual food; Deu 8:3Neh 9:15Exo 16:35Exo 16:4Neh 9:20Exo 16:15Psa 105:40Psa 78:23-25 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. Exo 17:6Jhn 7:37Isa 48:21Jhn 4:14Psa 105:41Jhn 4:10Num 20:11Psa 78:15 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Heb 3:17Jud 1:5Num 26:64-65Num 14:37Num 14:11-12Num 14:28-35Psa 106:26Psa 78:32-34
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. Jud 1:71Co 10:112Pe 2:6Heb 4:11Num 11:4Zep 3:6-7Num 11:31-34Psa 106:14-15 Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” 1 Exo 32:6-8Psa 106:19-201Co 6:9Deu 9:121Co 10:14Deu 9:16-211Co 5:111Jn 5:21 Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. Num 25:1-91Co 6:18Psa 106:291Co 6:9Rev 2:14 Let’s not test Christ, 2 as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents. Num 21:5-6Psa 78:18Heb 3:8-11Exo 17:2Deu 6:16Exo 17:7Psa 78:56Exo 23:20-21 Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. Num 14:2Num 16:41Num 14:37Php 2:141Ch 21:152Sa 24:16Psa 106:25Exo 12:23 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come. Rom 15:4Rom 13:111Co 9:101Jn 2:18Php 4:5Rom 4:23Heb 10:25Heb 10:37 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall. Rom 11:202Pe 3:17Pro 16:181Co 8:2Mat 26:40-41Mat 26:33-34Pro 28:14Rev 3:17-18
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 2Pe 2:92Ti 4:182Th 3:31Pe 5:8-9Heb 12:41Th 5:24Rom 8:28-392Co 12:8-10
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. Rev 21:81Jn 5:211Pe 2:112Co 7:12Co 6:17Rev 22:15Rev 2:141Co 10:20-21 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say. 1Th 5:211Co 8:11Co 11:131Co 14:201Co 4:101Co 6:5Job 34:2-3 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ? Mat 26:26-281Co 11:23-29Act 2:42Heb 3:141Jn 1:7Jhn 6:53-58Luk 22:19-201Jn 1:3 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread. Rom 12:5Col 3:151Co 12:121Co 12:27Eph 4:12-13Eph 4:16Eph 4:25Eph 4:4 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? Eph 2:11-12Gal 6:16Lev 3:11Lev 7:6Php 3:3-51Co 9:132Co 11:18-22Lev 3:3-5
What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 1Co 8:41Co 1:281Co 13:21Co 3:7Deu 32:21Isa 40:17Isa 41:292Co 12:11 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons. Rev 9:20Psa 106:37-39Deu 32:16-172Co 4:4Lev 17:72Ch 11:15 You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons. Mat 6:241Ki 18:212Co 6:15-17Isa 65:111Co 10:16Deu 32:37-381Co 8:10 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? Deu 32:21Deu 32:16Heb 10:31Deu 4:24Deu 6:15Ecc 6:10Exo 20:5Exo 34:14
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up. 1Co 6:121Co 8:9Eph 4:29Rom 14:19-201Th 5:11Rom 15:1-2Rom 14:151Co 14:17 Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good. Rom 15:1-2Php 2:4-51Co 10:33Php 2:211Co 9:19-231Co 13:52Co 12:14 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience, 1Ti 4:41Co 8:7Tit 1:15Rom 14:141Co 10:27-29Act 10:15Rom 13:5 for “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.” 3 Psa 24:1Psa 50:12Exo 19:5Deu 10:14Job 41:111Ti 6:171Co 10:28 But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience. 1Co 10:25Luk 10:7-81Co 5:9-112Co 1:132Co 4:22Co 5:11Luk 15:23Luk 19:7 But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, with all its fullness.” 1Co 8:10-131Co 8:7Rom 14:151Co 10:26Jer 27:5-6Mat 6:31-32Psa 115:16Deu 10:14 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience? 1Co 9:19Rom 14:15-211Co 8:9-131Co 10:322Co 8:211Th 5:22 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for something I give thanks for? Rom 14:61Ti 4:3-4
Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Col 3:17Col 3:231Pe 4:11Deu 12:7Deu 12:18Zec 7:5-6Deu 12:12Luk 11:41 Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, to Greeks, or to the assembly of God; Act 20:281Co 10:33Rom 14:131Co 8:132Co 6:3Act 24:161Co 11:221Ti 3:15 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved. 1Co 10:24Gal 1:101Co 9:19-23Rom 15:2-32Co 12:19Rom 11:142Co 11:28-29