ply, having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

X.

FOR I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all
under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; (2)and were all
immersed unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; (3)and all ate the
same spiritual food, (4)and all drank the same spiritual drink; for
they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was
Christ. (5)But in the most of them God had no pleasure; for they were
overthrown in the wilderness.

(6)Now these things were examples to us, in order that we should not
lust after evil things, as they also lusted. (7)Nor be ye idolaters,
as were some of them; as it is written: The people sat down to eat and
drink, and rose up to play. (8)Nor let us commit fornication, as some
of them did, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. (9)Nor let
us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by the
serpents. (10)Nor murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by
the destroyer.

(11)Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were
written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
(12)Wherefore let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall.
(13)There has no temptation taken you but such as belongs to man; and
God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye
are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape,
that ye may be able to bear it.

(14)Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. (15)I speak as to wise
men; judge ye what I say. (16)The cup of blessing which we bless, is
it not a partaking of the blood of Christ? The loaf which we break, is
it not a partaking of the body of Christ? (17)Because we, the many,
are one loaf, one body; for we all share in that one loaf.

(18)Behold Israel according to the flesh. Are not they who eat of the
sacrifices partakers of the altar?

(19)What then do I say? That an idol is anything, or that what is
offered to idols is anything? (20)Nay; but that what they sacrifice,
they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I would not that ye
should be partakers of the demons. (21)Ye can not drink the cup of the
Lord, and the cup of demons; ye can not share in the table of the
Lord, and the table of demons.

(22)Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
(23)All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient; all
things are lawful, but not all things edify. (24)