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- Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
- I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say.
- Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?
- Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.
- Look at the nation Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?
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- What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
- No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons.
- You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
- Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?
- All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable All things are lawful, but not all things edify.
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- Let no one seek his own good, but that of his neighbor.
- Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience' sake;
- FOR THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND ALL IT CONTAINS.
- If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience' sake.
- But if anyone says to you, "This is meat sacrificed to idols," do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience' sake;
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- I mean not your own conscience, but the other man's; for why is my freedom judged by another's conscience?
- If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks?
- Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
- Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;
- just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.
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