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16 Whether the cup of blessing which we bless, is not the communing of Christ's blood? and whether the bread which we break, is not the part taking of the body of the Lord? [The cup of blessing which we bless, whether it is not the communing of Christ's blood? and the bread which we break, whether it is not the dealing, or part taking, of the body of the Lord?]
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Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
17 For we many be one bread and one body, all we that take part of one bread and of one cup.
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Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.
18 See ye Israel after the flesh, whether they that eat sacrifices, be not partners of the altar?
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Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
19 What therefore say I, that a thing that is offered to idols is any thing, or that the idol is any thing?
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Do I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
20 But those things that heathen men offer, they offer to devils, and not to God. But I will not, that ye be made fellows of fiends;
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No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.
21 for ye be not able to drink the cup of the Lord [for ye may not drink the cup of the Lord], and the cup of fiends; ye be not able to be partners of the board of the Lord [ye may not be partners of the board of the Lord], and of the board of fiends.
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You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.
22 Whether we have envy to the Lord? whether we be stronger than he?
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Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
23 All things be leaveful to me, but not all things be speedful. All things be leaveful to me, but not all things edify.
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“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive.
24 No man seek that thing that is his own, but that thing that is of another.
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No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
25 All thing that is sold in the butchery, eat ye, asking nothing for conscience.
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Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
26 The earth and the plenty of it, is the Lord's.
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for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
Copyright © 2001 by Terence P. Noble. For personal use only.
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