The Webster Bible WBT
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16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
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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 [being] many are one bread, [and] one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
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Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.
18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they who eat of the sacrifices, partakers 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 then do I say? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols 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 [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with demons.
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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 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.
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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 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
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Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
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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 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's [wealth].
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No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
25 Whatever is sold in the provision market, [that] eat, asking no question for conscience' sake:
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Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
26 For the earth [is] the Lord's, and its fullness.
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for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
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