¹ Brethren I wolde not that ye shuld be ignoraunt of this how yt oure fathers were all vnder a cloude and all passed thorow the see

² and were all baptised vnder Moses in the cloude and in the see:

³ and dyd all eate of one spirituall meate

⁴ and did all drincke of one maner of spirituall drincke. And they dranke of that spretuall rocke that folowed them which rocke was Christ.

⁵ But in many of them had god no delite. For they were overthrowen in the wildernes.

⁶ These are ensamples to vs that we shuld not lust after evyll thinges as they lusted

⁷ Nether be ye worshippers of Images as were some of them accordynge as it is written: The people sate doune to eate and drynke and rose vp agayne to playe.

⁸ Nether let vs comit fornicacion as some of them committed fornicacion and were destroyed in one daye .xxiii. thousande.

⁹ Nether let vs tempte Christ as some of them tempted and were destroyed of serpentes.

¹⁰ Nether murmure ye as some of them murmured and were destroyed of ye destroyer

¹¹ All these thinges happened vnto them for ensamples and were written to put vs in remembraunce whom the endes of the worlde are come apon.

¹² Wherfore let hym that thynketh he stodeth take hede least he fall.

¹³ There hath none other temptacion taken you but soche as foloweth ye nature of ma. But God is faythfull which shall not suffer you to be tempted above youre strenght: but shall in the myddes of the temptacion make awaye to escape out.

¹⁴ Wherfore my deare beloued fle from worshippynge of ydols.

¹⁵ I speake as vnto them which have discrecion Iudge ye what I saye.

¹⁶ Ys not the cuppe of blessinge which we blesse partakynge of ye bloude of Christ? ys not the breed which we breake partetakynge of the body of Christ?

¹⁷ because that we (though we be many) yet are one breed and one bodye in as moch as we all are partetakers of one breed.

¹⁸ Beholde Israhell which walketh carnally. Are not they which eate of the sacrifyse partetakers of the aultre?

¹⁹ What saye I then? that the ymage is eny thinge? or that it which is offered to ymages is eny thinge?

²⁰ Nay but I saye that those thinges which the gentyle offer they offer to devyls and not to god. And I wolde not that ye shuld have fellishippe with ye devils

²¹ Ye canot drincke of the cup of the lorde and of yt cup of ye deuyls. Ye cnanot be partetakers of the lordes table and of the table of deuelles.

²² Ether shall we provoke the lorde? Or are we stronger then he? All thynges are laufull vnto me but all thynges are not expedient.

²³ All thynges are lawfull to me but all thinges edifye not.

²⁴ Let no man seke his awne proffet: but let every man seke anothers welthe.

²⁵ What soever is solde in the market that eate and axe no questions for conscience sake

²⁶ For the erth is the lordis and all that therein is.

²⁷ Yf eny of them which beleve not bid you to a feest and yf ye be disposed to goo what soever is seet before you: eate axinge no question for conscience sake.

²⁸ But and yf eny man saye vnto you: this is dedicate vnto ydols eate not of it for his sake that shewed it and for hurtynge of conscience.

²⁹ Conscience I saye not thyne: but the coscieuce of that other. For why shuld my liberte be iudged of another manes conscience:

³⁰ For yf I take my parte with thakes: why am I evell spoken of for that thynge wherfore I geve thankes.

³¹ Whether therfore ye eate or dryncke or what soever ye do do all to the prayse of God.

³² Se that ye geve occasion of evell nether to ye Iewes nor yet to the gentyls nether to ye cogregacion of god:

³³ euen as I please all men in all thinges not sekynge myne awne proffet but the proffet of many that they myght be saved. Folowe me as I do Christ.