1 Corinthians 10:18

Israel's sacrificial meals involved real participation in the altar and its worship. Eating at an altar joins one to what that altar represents.

Cross-references · 15

• Phil 3:3–5For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
• Lev 3:11And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
• Gal 6:16And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
• Lev 7:6Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
• Eph 2:11–12Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
• Rom 1:3Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
• 1 Cor 9:13Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
• 2 Cor 11:18–22Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
• Lev 3:3–5And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
• Rom 4:12And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
• Rom 4:1What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
• Rom 9:3–8For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
• 1 Sam 9:12–13And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:
• Lev 7:11–17And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
• 1 Sam 2:13–16And the priests’ custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;

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