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# 1 Corinthians 10

1 Corinthians 10 is chapter 10 of 16 in the First Letter to the Corinthians. Here are all 33 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> By the example of the Israelites, he shews that we are not to build too much upon favours received but to avoid their sins and fly from the service of idols and from things offered to idols.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Corinthians 10 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and they all went across the sea.
2. And in Moses, they all were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea.
3. And they all ate of the same spiritual food.
4. And they all drank of the same spiritual drink. And so, they all were drinking of the spiritual rock seeking to obtain them; and that rock was Christ.
5. But with most of them, God was not well-pleased. For they were struck down in the desert.
6. Now these things were done as an example for us, so that we might not desire evil things, just as they desired.
7. And so, do not take part in idolatry, as some of them did, just as it was written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and then they rose up to amuse themselves.”
8. And let us not commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and so twenty-three thousand fell on one day.
9. And let us not tempt Christ, as some of them tempted, and so they perished by serpents.
10. And you should not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so they perished by the destroyer.
11. Now all of these things happened to them as an example, and so they have been written for our correction, because the final age has fallen upon us.
12. And so, whosoever considers himself to be standing, let him be careful not to fall.
13. Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.
14. Because of this, most beloved of mine, flee from the worship of idols.
15. Since I am speaking to those who are prudent, judge what I say for yourselves.
16. The cup of benediction that we bless, is it not a communion in the Blood of Christ? And the bread that we break, is it not a participation in the Body of the Lord?
17. Through the one bread, we, though many, are one body: all of us who are partakers of the one bread.
18. Consider Israel, according to the flesh. Are not those who eat from the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
19. What is next? Should I say that what is immolated to idols is anything? Or that the idol is anything?
20. But the things that the Gentiles immolate, they immolate to demons, and not to God. And I do not want you to become partakers with demons.
21. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and partakers of the table of demons.
22. Or should we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he is? All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient.
23. All is lawful to me, but not all is edifying.
24. Let no one seek for himself, but for others.
25. Whatever is sold in the market, you may eat, without asking questions for the sake of conscience.
26. “The earth and all its fullness belong to the Lord.”
27. If you are invited by any unbelievers, and you are willing to go, you may eat whatever is set before you, without asking questions for the sake of conscience.
28. But if anyone says, “This has been sacrificed to idols,” do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience.
29. But I am referring to the conscience of the other person, not to yours. For why should my liberty be judged by the conscience of another?
30. If I partake with thanksgiving, why should I be slandered over that for which I give thanks?
31. Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.
32. Be without offense toward the Jews, and toward the Gentiles, and toward the Church of God,
33. just as I also, in all things, please everyone, not seeking what is best for myself, but what is best for many others, so that they may be saved.

## 1 Corinthians 10 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Nolo enim vos ignorare fratres, quoniam patres nostri omnes sub nube fuerunt, et omnes mare transierunt,
2. et omnes in Moyse baptizati sunt in nube, et in mari:
3. et omnes eamdem escam spiritalem manducaverunt,
4. et omnes eumdem potum spiritalem biberunt (bibebant autem de spiritali, consequente eos, petra: petra autem erat Christus):
5. sed non in pluribus eorum beneplacitum est Deo: nam prostrati sunt in deserto.
6. Hæc autem in figura facta sunt nostri, ut non simus concupiscentes malorum, sicut et illi concupierunt.
7. Neque idololatræ efficiamini, sicut quidam ex ipsis: quemadmodum scriptum est: Sedit populus manducare, et bibere, et surrexerunt ludere.
8. Neque fornicemur, sicut quidam ex ipsis fornicati sunt, et ceciderunt una die viginti tria millia.
9. Neque tentemus Christum, sicut quidam eorum tentaverunt, et a serpentibus perierunt.
10. Neque murmuraveritis, sicut quidam eorum murmuraverunt, et perierunt ab exterminatore.
11. Hæc autem omnia in figura contingebant illis: scripta sunt autem ad correptionem nostram, in quos fines sæculorum devenerunt.
12. Itaque qui se existimat stare, videat ne cadat.
13. Tentatio vos non apprehendat nisi humana: fidelis autem Deus est, qui non patietur vos tentari supra id quod potestis, sed faciet etiam cum tentatione proventum ut possitis sustinere.
14. Propter quod, carissimi mihi, fugite ab idolorum cultura:
15. ut prudentibus loquor, vos ipsi judicate quod dico.
16. Calix benedictionis, cui benedicimus, nonne communicatio sanguinis Christi est? et panis quem frangimus, nonne participatio corporis Domini est?
17. Quoniam unus panis, unum corpus multi sumus, omnes qui de uno pane participamus.
18. Videte Israël secundum carnem: nonne qui edunt hostias, participes sunt altaris?
19. Quid ergo? dico quod idolis immolatum sit aliquid? aut quod idolum, sit aliquid?
20. Sed quæ immolant gentes, dæmoniis immolant, et non Deo. Nolo autem vos socios fieri dæmoniorum:
21. non potestis calicem Domini bibere, et calicem dæmoniorum; non potestis mensæ Domini participes esse, et mensæ dæmoniorum.
22. An æmulamur Dominum? numquid fortiores illo sumus? Omnia mihi licent, sed non omnia expediunt.
23. Omnia mihi licent, sed non omnia ædificat.
24. Nemo quod suum est quærat, sed quod alterius.
25. Omne quod in macello venit, manducate, nihil interrogantes propter conscientiam.
26. Domini est terra, et plenitudo ejus.
27. Si quis vocat vos infidelium, et vultis ire: omne quod vobis apponitur, manducate, nihil interrogantes propter conscientiam.
28. Si quis autem dixerit: Hoc immolatum est idolis: nolite manducare propter illum qui indicavit, et propter conscientiam:
29. conscientiam autem dico non tuam, sed alterius. Ut quid enim libertas mea judicatur ab aliena conscientia?
30. Si ego cum gratia participo, quid blasphemor pro eo quod gratias ago?
31. Sive ergo manducatis, sive bibitis, sive aliud quid facitis: omnia in gloriam Dei facite.
32. Sine offensione estote Judæis, et gentibus, et ecclesiæ Dei:
33. sicut et ego per omnia omnibus placeo, non quærens quod mihi utile est, sed quod multis: ut salvi fiant.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 128: The Canon of Scripture ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 129: The Canon of Scripture ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 697: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1094: The Holy Spirit and the Church in the Liturgy ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 694: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 128: The Canon of Scripture ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2119: "You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 670: He Will Come Again in Glory ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2175: The Lord's Day ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2848: "And Lead Us not into Temptation" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1334: The Eucharist in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1396: The Paschal Banquet ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1329: What is This Sacrament Called? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1331: What is This Sacrament Called? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1621: The Celebration of Marriage ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 953: The Communion of Saints ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.” — St. Leo the Great, Sermon 22 on the Nativity, c. 441 (On this theme: verse 13)
- “Breaking one bread, which is the medicine of immortality, the antidote against death, that we should live forever in Jesus Christ.” — St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Ephesians, 20, c. 107 (On this theme: verse 16)
- “Be what you see; receive what you are.” — St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 272, c. 408 (On this theme: verse 17)
- “Our sharing in the body and blood of Christ has no other purpose than to make us become what we receive.” — St. Leo the Great, Sermon 63 on the Passion, c. 452 (On this theme: verse 17)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 2: “In Moses” … Under the conduct of Moses, they received baptism in figure, by passing under the cloud, and through the sea; and they partook of the body and blood of Christ in figure, by eating of the manna, (called here a spiritual food because it was a figure of the true bread which comes down from heaven,) and drinking the water, miraculously brought out of the rock, called here a spiritual rock, because it was also a figure of Christ.
- Verse 11: That is, the last ages.
- Verse 13: or come upon you as yet, but what is human, or incident to man. Issue-- a way to escape.
- Verse 16: Here the apostle puts them in mind of their partaking of the body and blood of Christ in the sacred mysteries, and becoming thereby one mystical body with Christ. From whence he infers, ver. 21, that they who are made partakers with Christ, by the eucharistic sacrifice and sacrament, must not be made partakers with devils by eating of the meats sacrificed to them.
- Verse 17: “One bread” … or, as it may be rendered, agreeably both to the Latin and Greek, because the bread is one, all we, being many, are one body, who partake of that one bread. For it is by our communicating with Christ, and with one another, in this blessed sacrament, that we are formed into one mystical body; and made, as it were, one bread, compounded of many grains of corn, closely united together.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Mar 19, 2028 (computed): Third Sunday of Lent — Second Reading, 1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12
- Sat, Sep 16, 2028 (computed): Sts. Cornelius, Pope, and St. Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs — First Reading, 1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).