Young's Literal Translation YLT
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16 The cup of the blessing that we bless -- is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? the bread that we break -- is it not the fellowship of the body of the 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 because one bread, one body, are we the many -- for we all of the one bread do partake.
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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 Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship 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 an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --
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Do I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
20 [no,] but that the things that the nations sacrifice -- they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the 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 are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, 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 arouse 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 to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;
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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 one seek his own -- but each another's.
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No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
25 Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,
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Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
26 for the Lord's [is] the earth, and its fulness;
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for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
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