{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/1-corinthians/10","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-02T19:42:07.675Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":10,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":9,"nextChapter":11,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"FOR I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud, and in the sea: "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And did all eat the same spiritual food, "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And all drank the same spiritual drink; (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.) "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things as they also coveted. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Neither let us tempt Christ: as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Neither do you murmur: as some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Wherefore he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"The chalice of benediction, which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ ? And the bread, which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord ? "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For we, being many, are one bread, one body, all that partake of one bread. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar ? "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"What then ? Do I say, that what is offered in sacrifice to idols, is any thing ? Or, that the idol is any thing ? "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord, and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of devils. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"All things are lawful for me, but all things do not edify. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Let no man seek his own, but that which is another's. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat; asking no question for conscience' sake. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you will be willing to go; eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake. "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols, do not eat of it for his sake that told it, and for conscience' sake. "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Conscience, I say, not thy own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience ? "},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks ? "},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of God. "},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"Be without offence to the Jews, and to the Gentiles, and to the church of God: "},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself, but to many, that may be saved. "}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 10 (DRB)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 10](https://primebible.com/drb/1-corinthians/10)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/1-corinthians/10 (accessed 2026-06-02)."}}