1 Corinthians 10:1-33, Hebrews 3:1-19 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

1 Corinthians 10:1-33

Temptation and God’s Faithfulness

For ^aI do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all ^bunder the cloud and all ^cpassed through the sea; 2 and all were ^abaptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 and all ^aate the same spiritual food; 4 and all ^adrank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock was ¹Christ. 5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased. For ^athey were ¹struck down in the wilderness. 6 Now these things happened as ^aexamples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as ^bthey also craved.
7 Do not be ^aidolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “^bThe people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to ^cplay.” 8 Nor let us act in sexual immorality, as ^asome of them ¹did, and ^btwenty-three thousand fell in one day. 9 Nor let us put Christ to the test, as ^asome of them ¹did, and were destroyed by the serpents. 10 Nor ^agrumble, as some of them ¹did, and ^bwere destroyed by the ^cdestroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as an ^aexample, and ^bthey were written for our instruction, upon whom ^cthe ends of the ages have arrived. 12 Therefore let him who ^athinks he stands take heed that he does not fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man, but ^aGod is faithful, who will not allow you to be ^btempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
14 Therefore, my ^abeloved, flee from ^bidolatry. 15 I speak as to prudent people. You judge what I say. 16 Is not the ^acup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the ¹^bbread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ? 17 Since there is one ¹bread, we ^awho are many are one body, for we all partake of the one ¹bread. 18 Look at ¹the nation ^aIsrael. Are not those who ^beat the sacrifices sharers in the altar? 19 What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or ^athat an idol is anything? 20 No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they ^asacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not want you to become sharers in demons. 21 ^aYou cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and ^bthe table of demons. 22 Or do we ^aprovoke the ¹Lord to jealousy? Are we ^bstronger than He?
23 ^aAll things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things ^bbuild up. 24 Let no one ^aseek his own good, but that of the other person. 25 ^aEat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience’ sake. 26 ^aFor the earth is the ¹Lord’s, as well as its fullness. 27 If ^aone of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, ^beat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience’ sake. 28 But ^aif anyone says to you, “This is meat consecrated to idols,” do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience’ sake. 29 I do not mean your own conscience, but the other person’s. For ^awhy is my freedom judged by another’s conscience? 30 If I partake with gratefulness, ^awhy am I slandered concerning that for which I ^bgive thanks?
31 Whether, then, you eat or drink or ^awhatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32 ^aGive no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to ^bthe church of God; 33 just as I also ^aplease all men in all things, ^bnot seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, ^cso that they may be saved.

Hebrews 3:1-19

Jesus Greater than Moses

Therefore, ^aholy brothers, partakers of a ^bheavenly calling, consider ^cthe Apostle and ^dHigh Priest of our ^econfession—Jesus, 2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as ^aMoses also was in all His house. 3 ^aFor He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, in so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. 5 Now ^aMoses was faithful in all His house as ^ba servant, ^cfor a testimony of those things ^dwhich were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ was faithful as ^aa Son over His house—^bwhose house we are, ^cif we hold fast our ^dconfidence and the boast of our ^ehope.
7 Therefore, just as ^athe Holy Spirit says,

“^bToday if you hear His voice,

^aDo not harden your hearts as ¹when they provoked Me,

As in the day of trial in the wilderness,

^aWhere your fathers tried Me by testing Me,

And saw My works for ^bforty years.

^aTherefore I was angry with this generation,

And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,

And they did not know My ways’;

^aAs I swore in My wrath,

‘They shall not enter My rest.’”

Warning Against Unbelief

12 ^aSee to it brothers, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart ¹that falls away from ^bthe living God. 13 But ^aencourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the ^bdeceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ, ^aif we hold fast the beginning of our ^bassurance firm until the end, 15 while it is said,

“^aToday if you hear His voice,

Do not harden your hearts, as ¹when they provoked Me.”

16 For who ^aprovoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, ^bdid not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^awhose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear ^athat they would not enter His rest, but to those who were ^bdisobedient? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter because of ^aunbelief.