1 Corinthians 10:19-29

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ What then? Do I say, that what is offered in sacrifice to idols, is any thing? Or, that the idol is any thing?

²⁰ But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.

²¹ You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord, and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of devils.

²² Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient.

²³ All things are lawful for me, but all things do not edify.

²⁴ Let no man seek his own, but that which is another's.

²⁵ Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat; asking no question for conscience' sake.

²⁶ The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

²⁷ If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you will be willing to go; eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake.

²⁸ But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols, do not eat of it for his sake that told it, and for conscience' sake.

²⁹ Conscience, I say, not thy own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?