17Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.
18See Israel after the flesh: do not those who take as food the offerings of the altar take a part in the altar?
19Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?
20What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits.
21It is not possible for you, at the same time, to take the cup of the Lord and the cup of evil spirits; you may not take part in the table of the Lord and the table of evil spirits.
22Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?
23We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.
