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1 Corinthians 10:3

and all ate the same spiritual food;
1 Corinthians 10:3 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
  • BSB They all ate the same spiritual food
  • NKJV all ate the same spiritual food,
  • NASB and they all ate the same spiritual food,
  • NLT All of them ate the same spiritual food,

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All Israel ate the same spiritual food—the manna God provided in the wilderness. They shared in God's supernatural provision.

Overview

Paul calls the manna "spiritual food" because it was miraculously given by God to sustain His people (Exod 16). All Israel partook of it, just as all the Corinthians partake of the Lord's Supper. The parallel continues to build his warning: shared participation in God-given spiritual benefits did not secure Israel against judgment, and the same caution applies to the Corinthian church and its sacramental confidence.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 9

  • Deut 8:3He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
  • Neh 9:15and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
  • Exod 16:35The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
  • Exod 16:4Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
  • Neh 9:20You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
  • Exod 16:15When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.”
  • Ps 105:40They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
  • Ps 78:23–25Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
  • John 6:22–58On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.

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Christ crucified is the wisdom and power of God; he is our Passover sacrificed for us, the firstfruits of resurrection, the foundation on which everything is built.

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