¹⁴ So, my dear friends, stay away from worshiping idols. ¹⁵ I am speaking to you, as to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say. ¹⁶ We give thanks for the cup of blessing.^[a] It is a sharing in the blood of Christ’s death. And the bread that we break is a sharing in the body of Christ. ¹⁷ There is one loaf of bread. And we are many people. But we all share from that one loaf. So we are really one body.

¹⁸ Think about the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices share in the altar? ¹⁹ I do not mean that the food sacrificed to an idol is something important. And I do not mean that an idol is anything at all. ²⁰ But I say that what is sacrificed to idols is offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to share anything with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons, too. You cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons, too. ²² Do we want to make the Lord jealous? We are not stronger than he is, are we?