Modern Literal Version
[1 Corinthians 10]


     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; 10:3and 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 Neither should you* become idolaters, as some of them were; as it has been written, НThe people sat down to eat and drink and rose* up to play.М {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* exceptcommon 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? 10:17Because 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, 10:26for* 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 disclosed 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 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 НcommunionМ for the word НfellowshipМ which is the common translation throughout the rest of the New Covenant.}



Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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