Body of Christ

1Corinthians 10:14-22, do not participate by eating the sacrifice offers to demons (vs 17-23).

Allow to do anything but not everything is good and helpful (vs 23).

1 Corinthians 10:14-23
[14]So then, my dear friends, keep away from the worship of idols.
[15]I speak to you as sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
[16]The cup we use in the Lord’s Supper and for which we give thanks to God: when we drink from it, we are sharing in the blood of Christ. And the bread we break: when we eat it, we are sharing in the body of Christ.
[17]Because there is the one loaf of bread, all of us, though many, are one body, for we all share the same loaf.
[18]Consider the people of Israel; those who eat what is offered in sacrifice share in the altar’s service to God.
[19]Do I imply, then, that an idol or the food offered to it really amounts to anything?
[20]No! What I am saying is that what is sacrificed on pagan altars is offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be partners with demons.
[21]You cannot drink from the Lord’s cup and also from the cup of demons; you cannot eat at the Lord’s table and also at the table of demons.
[22]Or do we want to make the Lord jealous? Do we think that we are stronger than he?
[23]“We are allowed to do anything,” so they say. That is true, but not everything is good. “We are allowed to do anything” — but not everything is helpful.

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