1 Corinthians 10:1

Paul warns the Corinthians by recalling that all Israel's forefathers were under the cloud and passed through the Red Sea. Past privileges did not guarantee their faithfulness or safety.

Cross-references · 28

• Exod 14:29But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
• Neh 9:11–12You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
• Ps 78:13–14He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
• Ps 106:7–11Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
• Ps 105:39He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
• Exod 14:19–22And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them,
• Exod 13:21–22And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
• 1 Cor 14:38But if anyone ignores this, he himself will be ignored.
• Ps 78:53He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
• Ps 77:16–20The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.
• Heb 11:29By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were drowned.
• Neh 9:19You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.
• Num 33:8They set out from Pi-hahiroth and crossed through the sea, into the wilderness, and they journeyed three days into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.
• Ps 66:6He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.
• Exod 40:34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
• Deut 1:33who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.
• Josh 4:23For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.
• Num 14:14And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
• Num 9:15–22On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.
• Rom 4:11And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.
• 1 Cor 12:1Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
• Ps 114:3–5The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
• Isa 58:11–13The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
• Rev 15:2–3And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,
• Ps 136:13–15He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.
• Gal 3:29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.
• John 4:20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
• Rom 11:21For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.

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