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 on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
• Neh 9:11–12You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
• Ps 78:13–14He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
• Ps 106:7–11Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
• Ps 105:39He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.
• Exod 14:19–22The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
• Exod 13:21–22Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
• 1 Cor 14:38But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
• Ps 78:53He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
• Ps 77:16–20The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.
• Heb 11:29By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.
• Neh 9:19yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
• Num 33:8They traveled from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
• Ps 66:6He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.
• Exod 40:34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.
• Deut 1:33who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
• Josh 4:23For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you had crossed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had crossed over;
• Num 14:14They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the middle of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
• Num 9:15–22On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
• Rom 4:11He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
• 1 Cor 12:1Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.
• Ps 114:3–5The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
• Isa 58:11–13and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.
• Rev 15:2–3I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
• Ps 136:13–15To him who divided the Red Sea apart; for his loving kindness endures forever;
• Gal 3:29If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
• John 4:20Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
• Rom 11:21for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

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