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 children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
• Neh 9:11–12And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
• Ps 78:13–14He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
• Ps 106:7–11Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
• Ps 105:39He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
• Exod 14:19–22And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
• Exod 13:21–22And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
• 1 Cor 14:38But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
• Ps 78:53And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
• Ps 77:16–20The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
• Heb 11:29By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
• Neh 9:19Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
• Num 33:8And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
• Ps 66:6He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
• Exod 40:34Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
• Deut 1:33Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
• Josh 4:23For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
• Num 14:14And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
• Num 9:15–22And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.
• Rom 4:11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
• 1 Cor 12:1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
• Ps 114:3–5The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
• Isa 58:11–13And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
• Rev 15:2–3And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
• Ps 136:13–15To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
• Gal 3:29And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
• John 4:20Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
• Rom 11:21For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

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