A    ^noteBrethren I wolde not that ye shuld be ignoraunt of this / how þt; oure fathers were all vnder a cloude / and all passed thorow the see / and were all baptised vnder Moses / in the cloude / and in the see: ∧ dyd all eate of one spirituall meate / ∧ did all drincke of one maner of spirituall drincke. And they dranke of that spretuall rocke that folowed them / which rocke was Christ. &cross3; But in many of them had god no delite. For they were overthrowen in the wildernes.

These are ensamples to vs &cross2; that we shuld not lust after evyll thing&es; / as they lusted Nether be ye worshippers of Images as were some of them accordynge as it is written: B    The people sate doune to eate and drynke / ^note ∧ rose vp agayne to playe. Nether let vs c&obar;mit fornicacion as some of them committed fornicacion / and were destroyed in one daye .xxiii. thousande. Nether let vs tempte Christ / as some of them tempted / and were destroyed of serpentes. ^note Nether murmure ye as some of them murmured / and were destroyed of þe; destroyer

All these thing&es; happened vnto them for ensamples / and were written to put vs in remembraunce

/ C   whom the endes of the worlde are come apon. Wherfore let hym that thynketh he st&obar;deth / take hede least he fall. There hath none other temptacion taken you / but soche as foloweth þe; nature of m&abar;. But God is faythfull / which shall not suffer you to be tempted above youre strenght: but shall in the myddes of the temptacion make awaye to escape out. &cross3; Wherfore my deare beloued / fle from worshippynge of ydols.

D    ^noteI speake as vnto them which have discrecion / Iudge ye what I saye. Ys not the cuppe of blessinge which we blesse / partakynge of þe; bloude of Christ? ys not the breed which we breake / partetakynge of the body of Christ? because that we (though we be many) yet are one breed / and one bodye in as moch as we all are partetakers of one breed. Beholde Israhell which walketh carnally. Are not they which eate of the sacrifyse / partetakers of the aultre?

What saye I then? that the ymage is eny thinge? or that it which is offered to ymages is eny thinge? Nay / but I saye / that those thinges which the gentyle offer / they offer to devyls / and not to god. E   &cross2; And I wolde not that ye shuld have fellishippe with þe; devils Ye c&abar;not drincke of the cup of the lorde / ∧ of þt; cup of þe; deuyls. ^noteYe cnanot be partetakers of the lordes table / ∧ of the table of deuelles. Ether shall we provoke the lorde? Or are we stronger then he? All thynges are laufull vnto me / but all thynges are not expedient. All

thynges are lawfull to me / ^note but all thinges edifye not. Let no man seke his awne proffet: but let every man seke anothers welthe.

F   What soever is solde in the market / that eate / and axe no questions for conscience sake For the erth is the lordis / and all that therein is. Yf eny of them which beleve not / bid you to a feest / ∧ yf ye be disposed to goo / what soever is seet before you: eate / axinge no question for conscience sake. But and yf eny man saye vnto you: this is dedicate vnto ydols / eate not of it for his sake that shewed it / and for hurtynge of conscience. The erth is the lordes ∧ all that there in is. Conscience I saye / not thyne: but the c&obar;scieuce of that other. ^noteFor why shuld my liberte be iudged of another m&abar;nes conscience: For yf I take my parte with th&abar;kes: why am I evell spoken of for that thynge wherfore I geve thankes.

Whether therfore ye eate or dryncke / or what soever ye do / do all to the prayse of God. &cross3; Se that ye geve occasion of evell / nether to þe; Iewes / G   nor yet to the gentyls / nether to þe; c&obar;gregacion of god: euen as I please all men in all thinges / not sekynge myne awne proffet / ^note but the proffet of many / that they myght be saved. Folowe me as I do Christ.

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