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1 Corinthians 10:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread. "
1 Corinthians 10:17
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15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?
17 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
18 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
19 What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
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1 Corinthians 10:1
"Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;"
1 Corinthians 10:2
"and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;"
1 Corinthians 10:3
"and all ate the same spiritual food;"
1 Corinthians 10:4
"and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ."
1 Corinthians 10:5
"However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness."
1 Corinthians 10:6
"Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted."
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