1   For I vvil not haue you ignorant brethren, that our fathers vvere al ^note vnder the cloude, & al ^note passed through the sea,

2   and al in Moyses vvere baptized in the cloude and in the sea:

3   and ^note al did eate 09Q1097the same spiritual foode,

4   and al ^note drunke the same spiritual drinke (and they ^note drunke of the spiritual rocke that folovved them, and the rocke vvas Christ,)

5   but in the more part of them God vvas not vvel pleased. &cross4; for they ^note vvere ouerthrovven in the desert. ^note

6   And these things vvere done in a figure of vs, that vve be not coueting euil things, as ^note they also coueted.

7   Neither become ye Idolaters, as certaine of them: as is vvritten: The people sate dovvne to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play. ^note

8   Neither let vs fornicate, ^note as certaine of them did fornicate, and there fel in one day three and tvventie thousand.

9   Neither let vs tempt Christ: as certaine of them tempted, and ^note perished by the serpents.

10   Neither doe you murmure: as ^note certaine of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

11   And al these things chaunced to them in figure: but they are vvritten to our correption, vpon vvhom the endes of the vvorld are come.

12   Therfore he that thinketh him self to stand, let him take heede ^note lest he fall.

13    ^noteLet not tentation apprehend you, but humane and God is faithful, vvho vvil not suffer you to be tempted aboue that vvhich you are able: but vvil make also vvith tentation ^note issue, that you may be able to susteine. &cross4;

14   For the vvhich cause, my deerest, flee from the seruing of Idols.

15   I speake09Q1098as to vvise men: your selues iudge vvhat I say.

16   The chalice of benediction09Q1099vvhich vve do blesse: is it not the c&obar;munication of the bloud of Christ? and the bread vvhich vve breake, is it not09Q1100the participation of the body of our Lord?

17   For being many, vve are09Q1101one bread, one body, al that participate of one bread.

18   Behold Israël according to the flesh:09Q1102they that eate the hostes, are they not partakers of the altar?

19   Vvhat then? do I say that that vvhich is immolated to Idols, is any thing? or that the Idol is any thing?

20   But the things that the heathen do immolate, to deuils they do immolate, and not to God. And09Q1103I vvil not haue you become fellovves of deuils.

21   09Q1104You can not drinke the chalice of our Lord, and the chalice of deuils:

you can not be09Q1105partakers of the table of our Lord, and of the table of deuils.

22   Or do vve emulate our Lord? Vvhy, are we stronger then he?

22   09Q1106Al things are lavvful for me, but al things are not expedient.

23   Al things are lavvful for me, but al things do not edifie.

24   Let no man seeke his ovvne, but an other mans.

25   Al that is sold in the shambles, eate: asking no question for conscience.

26   The earth is our Lordes, and the fulnes thereof. ^note

27   If any inuite you of the infidels, and you vvil goe: eate of al that is set before you, asking no question for conscience.

28   But if any man say, This is immolated to Idols: do not eate for his sake that shevved it, and for conscience:

29   conscience I say not thine but the others. For vvhy is my libertie iudged of an other mans conscience?

30   If I participate vvith thankes: vvhy am I blasphemed for that vvhich I giue thankes for?

31   Therfore vvhether you eate, or drinke, or do any other thing: doe al things vnto the glorie of God.

32   Be vvithout offense to the Ievves and to the Gentiles, and to the Church of God:

33   as I also in al things doe please al men, not seeking that vvhich is profitable to my self, but vvhich is to many: that they may be saued.

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