13. Every test that you have experienced is the kind that normally comes to people. But God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test, he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out.
14. So then, my dear friends, keep away from the worship of idols.
15. I speak to you as sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
16. The cup we use in the Lord's Supper and for which we give thanks to God: when we drink from it, we are sharing in the blood of Christ. And the bread we break: when we eat it, we are sharing in the body of Christ.
17. Because there is the one loaf of bread, all of us, though many, are one body, for we all share the same loaf.
18. Consider the people of Israel; those who eat what is offered in sacrifice share in the altar's service to God.