One Table, Not Two

Wilderness, Table, and Freedom · 1 Corinthians 10

Story guide: Paul calls believers to flee idolatry and contrasts sharing in the Lord’s cup and bread with participation at an idol table.

14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

15I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.

16The cup of blessing that we bless—is it not a sharing in the blood of Messiah? The bread that we break—is it not a sharing in the body of Messiah?

17Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

18Consider Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?

19What then am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

20No, but what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons.

21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

22Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Surely we are not stronger than he is, are we?

Step through the story beside the Scripture itself. About the People’s Open Bible