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1Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;Cross-references: Ex 13:21 · Ex 14:19 · Ex 14:29 · Ex 40:34 · Num 9:15 · Num 14:14 · +22 more
2and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;Cross-references: Ex 14:31 · John 9:28 · Rom 6:3 · 1Cor 1:13 · Gal 3:27 · Heb 3:2
3and all ate the same spiritual food;Cross-references: Ex 16:4 · Ex 16:15 · Ex 16:35 · Deut 8:3 · Neh 9:15 · Neh 9:20 · +3 more
4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.Cross-references: Gen 40:12 · Gen 41:26 · Ex 17:6 · Num 20:11 · Deut 9:21 · Ps 78:15 · +17 more
5However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.Cross-references: Num 14:11 · Num 14:28 · Num 14:37 · Num 26:64 · Deut 1:34 · Deut 2:15 · +7 more
6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.Cross-references: Num 11:4 · Num 11:31 · Ps 78:27 · Ps 106:14 · Zeph 3:6 · Rom 5:14 · +6 more
7Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”Cross-references: Ex 32:4 · Ex 32:6 · Ex 32:17 · Ex 32:19 · Deut 9:12 · Deut 9:16 · +7 more
8Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.Cross-references: Num 25:1 · Ps 106:29 · 1Cor 6:9 · 1Cor 6:18 · Rev 2:14
9Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.Cross-references: Ex 17:2 · Ex 17:7 · Ex 23:20 · Num 21:5 · Deut 6:16 · Ps 78:18 · +5 more
10Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.Cross-references: Ex 12:23 · Ex 15:24 · Ex 16:2 · Ex 17:2 · Num 14:2 · Num 14:27 · +14 more
11Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.Cross-references: Rom 4:23 · Rom 13:11 · Rom 15:4 · 1Cor 7:29 · 1Cor 9:10 · Phil 4:5 · +3 more
12Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.Cross-references: Prov 16:18 · Prov 28:14 · Matt 26:33 · Matt 26:40 · Rom 11:20 · 1Cor 4:6 · +3 more
13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.Cross-references: Gen 19:20 · Ex 3:17 · Deut 7:9 · Ps 36:5 · Ps 89:33 · Ps 124:7 · +40 more
14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.Cross-references: Rom 12:19 · 1Cor 10:7 · 1Cor 10:20 · 2Cor 6:17 · 2Cor 7:1 · 2Cor 11:11 · +10 more
15I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.Cross-references: Job 34:2 · 1Cor 4:10 · 1Cor 6:5 · 1Cor 8:1 · 1Cor 11:13 · 1Cor 14:20 · +1 more
16The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?Cross-references: Matt 26:26 · Mark 14:22 · Luke 22:19 · John 6:53 · Acts 2:42 · Acts 2:46 · +9 more
17Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.Cross-references: Rom 12:5 · 1Cor 10:3 · 1Cor 10:21 · 1Cor 11:26 · 1Cor 12:12 · 1Cor 12:27 · +11 more
18Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?Cross-references: Lev 3:3 · Lev 3:11 · Lev 7:6 · Lev 7:11 · 1Sam 2:13 · 1Sam 9:12 · +9 more
19What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?Cross-references: Deut 32:21 · Isa 40:17 · Isa 41:29 · 1Cor 1:28 · 1Cor 3:7 · 1Cor 8:4 · +2 more
20But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.Cross-references: Lev 17:7 · Deut 32:16 · 2Chr 11:15 · Ps 106:37 · 2Cor 4:4 · Rev 9:20
21You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.Cross-references: Deut 32:37 · 1Ki 18:21 · Isa 65:11 · Matt 6:24 · 1Cor 8:10 · 1Cor 10:16 · +1 more
22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Ex 34:14 · Deut 4:24 · Deut 6:15 · Deut 32:16 · Deut 32:21 · +9 more
23“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.Cross-references: Rom 14:15 · Rom 14:19 · Rom 15:1 · 1Cor 6:12 · 1Cor 8:1 · 1Cor 8:9 · +8 more
24Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.Cross-references: Rom 15:1 · 1Cor 9:19 · 1Cor 10:33 · 1Cor 13:5 · 2Cor 12:14 · Phil 2:4 · +1 more
25Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,Cross-references: Acts 10:15 · Rom 13:5 · Rom 14:14 · 1Cor 8:7 · 1Cor 10:27 · 1Tim 4:4 · +1 more
26for “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Deut 10:14 · Job 41:11 · Ps 24:1 · Ps 50:12 · 1Cor 10:28 · +1 more
27But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.Cross-references: Luke 5:29 · Luke 10:7 · Luke 15:23 · Luke 19:7 · 1Cor 5:9 · 1Cor 10:25 · +3 more
28But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, with all its fullness.”Cross-references: Ex 9:29 · Deut 10:14 · Ps 24:1 · Ps 115:16 · Jer 27:5 · Matt 6:31 · +4 more
29Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?Cross-references: Rom 14:15 · 1Cor 8:9 · 1Cor 9:19 · 1Cor 10:32 · 2Cor 8:21 · 1Thess 5:22
30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for something I give thanks for?Cross-references: Rom 14:6 · 1Tim 4:3
31Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.Cross-references: Deut 12:7 · Deut 12:12 · Deut 12:18 · Neh 8:16 · Zech 7:5 · Luke 11:41 · +4 more
32Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;Cross-references: Acts 20:28 · Acts 24:16 · Rom 14:13 · 1Cor 8:13 · 1Cor 10:33 · 1Cor 11:22 · +4 more
33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.Cross-references: Rom 11:14 · Rom 15:2 · 1Cor 9:19 · 1Cor 10:24 · 2Cor 11:28 · 2Cor 12:19 · +1 more
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