9. Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
10. Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
11. 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.
12. Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
13. 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.
14. Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
15. I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
16. 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?
17. Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
18. Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
19. What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols 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 don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.
21. 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.