Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 10:17 in context
1 Corinthians 10:14–20
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Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
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I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
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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?
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Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
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Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
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What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
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But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.
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