1 F or I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, that our forefathers were all under and protected by the cloud, and every one of them passed safely through the Sea,

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

2 A nd each one of them to be baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

and all to Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea;

3 A nd all ate the same spiritual (supernaturally given) food,

and all the same spiritual food did eat,

4 A nd they all drank the same spiritual (supernaturally given) drink. For they drank from a spiritual Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ.

and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ;

5 N evertheless, God was not pleased with the great majority of them, for they were overthrown and strewn down along in the wilderness.

but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,

6 N ow these things are examples (warnings and admonitions) for us not to desire or crave or covet or lust after evil and carnal things as they did.

and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

7 D o not be worshipers of false gods as some of them were, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink and rose to sport (to dance and give way to jesting and hilarity).

Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

8 W e must not gratify evil desire and indulge in immorality as some of them did—and twenty-three thousand fell dead in a single day!

neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

9 W e should not tempt the Lord as some of them did—and were killed by poisonous serpents;

neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

10 N or discontentedly complain as some of them did—and were put out of the way entirely by the destroyer (death).

neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.

11 N ow these things befell them by way of a figure; they were written to admonish and fit us for right action by good instruction, we in whose days the ages have reached their climax (their consummation and concluding period).

And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,

12 T herefore let anyone who thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall.

so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.

13 F or no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man '> adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful, and He not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently.

No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear.

14 T herefore, my dearly beloved, shun (keep clear away from, avoid by flight if need be) any sort of idolatry (of loving or venerating anything more than God).

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;

15 I am speaking as to intelligent (sensible) men. Think over and make up your minds about what I say.

as to wise men I speak -- judge ye what I say:

16 T he cup of blessing upon which we ask blessing, does it not mean we participate in and share a fellowship (a communion) in the blood of Christ (the Messiah)? The bread which we break, does it not mean we participate in and share a fellowship (a communion) in the body of Christ?

The cup of the blessing that we bless -- is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? the bread that we break -- is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ?

17 F or we numerous we are, are one body, because we all partake of the one Bread.

because one bread, one body, are we the many -- for we all of the one bread do partake.

18 C onsider those people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners of the altar ?

See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?

19 W hat do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything or that an idol itself is a thing?

what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --

20 N o, I am suggesting that what the pagans sacrifice they offer to demons (to evil spiritual powers) and not to God. I do not want you to fellowship and be partners with diabolical spirits.

but that the things that the nations sacrifice -- they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.

21 Y ou cannot drink the Lord’s cup and the demons’ cup. You cannot partake of the Lord’s table and the demons’ table.

Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;

22 S hall we thus provoke the Lord to jealousy and anger and indignation? Are we stronger than He ?

do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

23 A ll things are legitimate, but not all things are helpful (expedient, profitable, and wholesome). All things are legitimate, but not all things are constructive and edifying.

All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

24 L et no one then seek his own good and advantage and profit, but each one of the other.

let no one seek his own -- but each another's.

25 e at anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question or investigating on the grounds of conscientious scruples,

Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

26 F or the earth is the Lord’s and everything that is in it.

for the Lord's the earth, and its fulness;

27 I n case one of the unbelievers invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is served to you without examining into its source because of conscientious scruples.

and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;

28 B ut if someone tells you, This has been offered in sacrifice to an idol, do not eat it, out of consideration for the person who informed you, and for conscience’s sake—

and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' -- do not eat, because of that one who shewed, and of the conscience, for the Lord's the earth and its fulness:

29 I mean for the sake of his conscience, not yours,. For why should another man’s scruples apply to me and my liberty of action be determined by his conscience?

and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?

30 I f I partake with thankfulness, why am I accused and spoken evil of because of that for which I give thanks?

and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?

31 S o then, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you may do, do all for the honor and glory of God.

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

32 D o not let yourselves be an offense to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God '> do not lead others into sin by your mode of life];

become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

33 J ust as I myself strive to please all men in everything I do, not aiming at or considering my own profit and advantage, but that of the many in order that they may be saved.

as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.