For Loss of The Prize Is Possible: Remember What Happened To Israel

10 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers^[a] were all under the cloud, and all went through the sea, ² and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, ³ and all ate the same spiritual^[b] food, ⁴ and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were drinking from a spiritual^[c] rock following them. And the rock was Christ. ⁵ But God was not well-pleased with the majority of them, for they were strewn in the wilderness.

Do Not Follow Their Example

⁶ Now these things took place as our examples, so that we might not be desirers of evil things, as those also desired. ⁷ And do not be idolaters, as some of them, as-indeed it has been written [in Ex 32:6], “The people sat-down to eat and drink, and stood up to play”. ⁸ And let us not be committing-sexual-immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty three thousand fell in one day [Num 25:1-9]. ⁹ And let us not be putting Christ to the test, as some of them tested, and were being destroyed by the serpents [Num 21:5-6]. ¹⁰ And do not be grumbling, like some of them grumbled, and perished by the destroyer [Num 16:41-49]. ¹¹ Now these^[d] things were happening to those ones as-an-example. And it was written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come^[e].

So Watch Out That You Do Not Fall

¹² So then let the one thinking that he stands be watching-out that he may not fall. ¹³ A temptation has not seized you except what is common-to-humanity. And God is faithful, Who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but also with the temptation will make the way-out, that you may be able to endure.

For This Very Reason, Flee From The Eating Connected With Idol Worship

¹⁴ For-this-very-reason, my beloved, be fleeing from idolatry^[f]. ¹⁵ I speak as to wise ones; you judge what I say: ¹⁶ the cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a sharing^[g] of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a sharing of the body of Christ? ¹⁷ Because there is one bread, we the many are one body^[h], for we all partake from the one bread. ¹⁸ Look-at Israel according to the flesh— are not the ones eating the sacrifices sharers of the altar? ¹⁹ Therefore what am I saying? That^[i] food-sacrificed-to-an-idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? ²⁰ On the contrary, that the things which they are sacrificing, they are sacrificing to demons, and not^[j] to God. And I do not want you to be sharers of the demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the Lord’s cup and the demons’ cup. You cannot^[k] partake of the Lord’s table and the demons’ table. ²² Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

So As To The Eating of Meat, Do What Is Beneficial And Edifying To Those Eating

²³ All things are lawful, but not all things are beneficial. All things are lawful, but not all things build-up. ²⁴ Let no one be seeking his own thing, but the thing of the other. ²⁵ Be eating anything being sold in the meat-market, examining nothing for the sake of conscience. ²⁶ For “The earth and the fullness of it are the Lord’s” [Ps 24:1]. ²⁷ If one of the unbelievers invites you, and you want to go, eat anything being set-before you, examining nothing for the sake of conscience. ²⁸ But if one should say to you “This is offered-in-sacrifice”, do not eat^[l]— for the sake of that one having disclosed it, and the conscience. ²⁹ Now the conscience I mean is not the one of oneself, but the one of the other. For why^[m] is my freedom being judged^[n] by another’s conscience? ³⁰ If I am partaking with thanks, why am I being blasphemed for that which I am giving-thanks?

In Summary, Do All For God’s Glory. Be Blameless To All And Seek Their Benefit

³¹ Therefore, whether you are eating or drinking or doing anything, be doing all for the glory of God. ³² Be blameless^[o] both to Jews and Greeks, and to the church of God— ³³ just as I also am pleasing all people as to all things, not seeking the benefit of myself, but the benefit of the many, in order that they might be saved.