But I want you to know, my brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all of them passed through the sea;

and all of them were immersed by Moshe in the cloud and in the sea;

and all of them ate one food of the spirit;

and all of them drank one drink of the spirit; for they were drinking from the rock of the spirit that was coming with them, and that rock was Mashiyach.

But Elohim was not pleased with many of them, for they fell in the wilderness.

Now these things were a type for us, that we should not desire evil things as they desired.

And neither should we be servants of idols, as also some of them served, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

And neither should we commit whoredom, as some of them committed whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand.

And let us not test the Mashiyach, as some of them tested, and the serpents destroyed them.

And neither murmur, as some of them murmured, and they perished by the hands of the destroyer.

But all these things that happened to them were for types, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands beware that he does not fall.

No trial has come upon you except what is of the sons of men. But Elohim is faithful, who will not let you be tried beyond what you are able, but will make a way out for your trial so that you may be able to endure.

Because of this, my beloved, flee from the service of idols.

I speak as to the wise; you judge what I say.

The cup of thanksgiving that we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of the Mashiyach? And the bread that we break, is it not a communion of the body of the Mashiyach?

As that bread is one, so we all are one body; for we all take from that one bread.

Look at Yisrael who are in the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers of the altar?

What then am I saying? That an idol is anything? Or that a sacrifice of idols is anything? No.

But what the pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to Elohim. And I do not want you to be partners with demons.

You cannot drink the cup of our Master and the cup of demons, and you cannot share in the table of our Master and in the table of demons.

Or are we provoking our Master to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Everything is allowed to me, but not everything is helpful. Everything is allowed to me, but not everything builds up.

Let no one seek his own, but each one also that of his neighbor.

Everything that is sold in the meat-market, eat without inquiry because of conscience.

for the earth is Master YHWH's, in its fullness.

And if someone from the pagans invites you, and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, without inquiry because of conscience.

But if someone says to you, This is of a sacrifice, do not eat, because of him who told you, and because of conscience.

But conscience, I say, is not yours, but his who told you. For why is my freedom judged by another's conscience?

If I partake by grace, why am I reviled for that for which I give thanks?

If therefore you eat, or if you drink, or if you do anything, do all things for the glory of Elohim.

Be without offense to the Yehudaye, and to the Aramaye, and to the assembly of Elohim:

even as I also, in everything, please every person; and I do not seek what is profitable to me, but what is profitable to many, that they may live.