1 Corinthians 10:21-23
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.(A) 22 Or are we provoking the Lord to jealous anger? Are we stronger than he?(B)
Seek the Good of Others.[a] 23 “Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial.[b] “Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds up.(C)
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- 10:23–11:1 By way of peroration Paul returns to the opening situation (1 Cor 8) and draws conclusions based on the intervening considerations (1 Cor 9–10).
- 10:23–24 He repeats in the context of this new problem the slogans of liberty from 1 Cor 6:12, with similar qualifications. Liberty is not merely an individual perfection, nor an end in itself, but is to be used for the common good. The language of 1 Cor 10:24 recalls the descriptions of Jesus’ self-emptying in Phil 2.
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