MODERN LITERAL VERSION

10:1 Now brethren, I do not wish you* to be ignorant that our fathers were all under the cloud and all went through the sea;
10:2 and were all immersed* into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
10:3 and all ate the same spiritual food;
10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink; for* they drank from a spiritual rock following them and the rock was Christ.
10:5 Yet God was not delighted with most of them; for* they were overthrown in the wilderness.
10:6 Now these things became our examples, *that* we should not be desirers of evil things, as they also lusted.
10:7 Do not become idolaters, as some of them were; as it has been written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink and rose* up to play.' {Ex. 32:6}
10:8 Neither should we fornicate, like some of them fornicated and twenty three thousand fell in one day.
10:9 Nor should we test the Christ, just as some of them also tested him and perished by the serpents.
10:10 Nor murmur, like some of them also murmured and perished by the destroyer.
10:11 Now all these things befell them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have arrived.
10:12 So-then he who thinks he stands, let him beware, lest he might fall!
10:13 No temptation has taken you* except common human temptations, but God is faithful, who will not allow you* to be tempted beyond what you* are able to undergo, but with the temptation, he will also make* an outlet.

10:14 Hence, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
10:15 I speak as to prudent men. You*, judge what I say.
10:16 The cup of blessing for which we are giving-thanks, is it not a {F} fellowship of the blood of Christ? The bread which we are breaking, is it not a {F} fellowship of the body of Christ?
10:17 Because we, who are many, are one bread, one body; for* we all are partaking from the one bread.

10:18 Beware of Israel, according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partners with the altar?
10:19 Then what do I say? That an idol is anything or that an idol-sacrifice is anything?
10:20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they are sacrificing to demons and not to God and I do not wish you* to become partners with demons.

10:21 You* cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You* cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.
10:22 Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? We are not mightier than him, are we?

10:23 All things are legal for me, but not all things are advantageous. All things are legal for me, but not all things build up.
10:24 Let no one seek his own, but each one seek the good of the other.
10:25 Eat everything that is sold in the meat-markets, judging nothing because of conscience,
10:26 for* the earth is the Lord's and its fullness.
10:27 But if anyone of the unbelieving invites you* to a feast and you* wish to go; eat whatever is placed before you*, judging nothing because of conscience.
10:28 But if anyone says to you*, This has been an idol-sacrifice, do not eat, because of him who divulged it and because of conscience; for* the earth is the Lord's and its fullness.
10:29 I say, not your conscience, but conscience of the other; for* why is my freedom judged by another conscience?
10:30 If I partake with gratitude, why am I blasphemed on behalf of what I give-thanks?
10:31 Therefore, whether you* eat or drink or whatever you* are doing, do all to the glory of God.
10:32 Do not become a stumbling block, either to Jews or to Greeks or to the {F} congregation* of God;
10:33 just-as I am also pleasing all people in all things, not seeking what is advantageous for me, but what is advantageous for many, that* they may be saved.
{Footnotes: 1Co 10:16- tradition and some translations used ‘communion' for the word ‘fellowship' which is the common translation throughout the rest of the New Covenant. 1Co 10:32 Or: church/the one true church, Eph 4:1-6; discussed more in the Appendix.}