17. Since there is one loaf of bread, we who are many are one body, because we all share the one loaf of bread.
18. Look at the people of Israel. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices share from the altar?
19. What am I saying then? That food sacrificed to a false god is anything, or that a false god is anything?
20. No, but this kind of sacrifice is sacrificed to demons and not to God. I don’t want you to be sharing in demons.
21. You can’t drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you can’t participate in the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
22. Or should we make the Lord jealous? We aren’t stronger than he is, are we?
23. Everything is permitted, but everything isn’t beneficial. Everything is permitted, but everything doesn’t build others up.