1 Corinthians 10:1-5
A WARNING AGAINST CARNAL SECURITY. The backsliding of Israel:... [ Continue Reading ]
A WARNING AGAINST CARNAL SECURITY. The backsliding of Israel:... [ Continue Reading ]
MOREOVER, BRETHREN, I WOULD NOT THAT YE SHOULD BE IGNORANT HOW THAT ALL OUR FATHERS WERE UNDER THE CLOUD, AND ALL PASSED THROUGH THE SEA,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WERE ALL BAPTIZED UNTO MOSES IN THE CLOUD AND IN THE SEA,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DID ALL EAT THE SAME SPIRITUAL MEAT,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DID ALL DRINK THE SAME SPIRITUAL DRINK; FOR THEY DRANK OF THE SPIRITUAL ROCK THAT FOLLOWED THEM; AND THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WITH MANY OF THEM GOD WAS NOT WELL PLEASED; FOR THEY WERE OVERTHROWN IN THE WILDERNESS. In this passage the apostle offers a few pages from the history of ancient Israel as a warning example for those that are in danger of yielding to carnal security. Out of the entire number of adult Israelites... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THESE THINGS WERE OUR EXAMPLES, TO THE INTENT WE SHOULD NOT LUST AFTER EVIL THINGS, AS THEY ALSO LUSTED.... [ Continue Reading ]
Warning against the corruption of idolatry and related sins:... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER BE YE IDOLATERS, AS WERE SOME OF THEM; AS IT IS WRITTEN, THE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND DRINK AND ROSE UP TO PLAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER LET US COMMIT FORNICATION, AS SOME OF THEM COMMITTED, AND FELL IN ONE DAY THREE AND TWENTY THOUSAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER LET US TEMPT CHRIST, AS SOME OF THEM ALSO TEMPTED, AND WERE DESTROYED OF SERPENTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER MURMUR YE, AS SOME OF THEM ALSO MURMURED, AND WERE DESTROYED OF THE DESTROYER. The apostle substantiates his warning by referring to a number of incidents that happened in the wilderness, showing why the displeasure of God struck the children of Israel: Now these things, these judgments, are... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENED UNTO THEM FOR ENSAMPLES; AND THEY ARE WRITTEN FOR OUR ADMONITION, UPON WHOM THE ENDS OF THE WORLD ARE COME.... [ Continue Reading ]
The application of the lesson:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, LET HIM THAT THINKETH HE STANDETH TAKE HEED LEST HE FALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE HATH NO TEMPTATION TAKEN YOU BUT SUCH AS IS COMMON TO MAN; BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL, WHO WILL NOT SUFFER YOU TO BE TEMPTED ABOVE THAT YE ARE ABLE, BUT WILL WITH THE TEMPTATION ALSO MAKE A WAY TO ESCAPE, THAT YE MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT. Just as all the other matters related in Scriptures have more th... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, MY DEARLY BELOVED, FLEE FROM IDOLATRY.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONDUCT TOWARD THE WEAK. A reference to the Lord's Supper:... [ Continue Reading ]
I SPEAK AS TO WISE MEN; JUDGE YE WHAT I SAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CUP OF BLESSING WHICH WE BLESS, IS IT NOT THE COMMUNION OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST? THE BREAD WHICH WE BREAK, IS IT NOT THE COMMUNION OF THE BODY OF CHRIST?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE BEING MANY ARE ONE BREAD AND ONE BODY; FOR WE ARE ALL PARTAKERS OF THAT ONE BREAD. The first sentences are in the nature of a transition between the two sections of the chapter. The sad fate of the Israelites in the wilderness, the resemblance between their trials and those of the Corinthian... [ Continue Reading ]
The application of these truths to idolatrous practices:... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD ISRAEL AFTER THE FLESH; ARE NOT THEY WHICH EAT OF THE SACRIFICES PARTAKERS OF THE ALTAR?... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT SAY I, THEN? THAT THE IDOL IS ANYTHING, OR THAT WHICH IS OFFERED IN SACRIFICE TO IDOLS IS ANYTHING?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I SAY THAT THE THINGS WHICH THE GENTILES SACRIFICE THEY SACRIFICE TO DEVILS AND NOT TO GOD; AND I WOULD NOT THAT YE SHOULD HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH DEVILS.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE CANNOT DRINK THE CUP OF THE LORD AND THE CUP OF DEVILS; YE CANNOT BE PARTAKERS OF THE LORD'S TABLE AND OF THE TABLE OF DEVILS. In his effort to impress upon the Corinthians the fact that participation in idolatrous feasts was equivalent to idol worship, the apostle now introduces the analogy of t... [ Continue Reading ]
DO WE PROVOKE THE LORD TO JEALOUSY? ARE WE STRONGER THAN HE?... [ Continue Reading ]
The Christian principles involved:... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL FOR ME, BUT ALL THINGS ARE NOT EXPEDIENT; ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL FOR ME, BUT ALL THINGS EDIFY NOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET NO MAN SEEK HIS OWN, BUT EVERY MAN ANOTHER'S WEALTH. The apostle here mentions a thought that may have been found in the hearts of some of the Corinthians: Is it that we want to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Was that the idea which made them partake at both tables? Should Christians venture upon... [ Continue Reading ]
Rules of conduct:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHATSOEVER IS SOLD IN THE SHAMBLES THAT EAT, ASKING NO QUESTION FOR CONSCIENCE' SAKE;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S AND THE FULLNESS THEREOF.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY OF THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT BID YOU TO A FEAST AND YE BE DISPOSED TO GO, WHATSOEVER IS SET BEFORE YOU EAT, ASKING NO QUESTION FOR CONSCIENCE' SAKE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF ANY MAN SAY UNTO YOU, THIS IS OFFERED IN SACRIFICE UNTO IDOLS, EAT NOT FOR HIS SAKE THAT SHOWED IT, AND FOR CONSCIENCE' SAKE; FOR THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S AND THE FULLNESS THEREOF;... [ Continue Reading ]
CONSCIENCE, I SAY, NOT THINE OWN, BUT OF THE OTHER; FOR WHY IS MY LIBERTY JUDGED OF ANOTHER MAN'S CONSCIENCE?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF I BY GRACE BE A PARTAKER, WHY AM I EVIL SPOKEN OF FOR THAT FOR WHICH I GIVE THANKS? The application of the principles of Christian love to the situation at Corinth was not very difficult. Everything, all the meat that was offered for sale in the meat-market, they might eat. But in doing so, f... [ Continue Reading ]
WHETHER, THEREFORE, YE EAT, OR DRINK, OR WHATSOEVER YE DO, DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
The conclusion:... [ Continue Reading ]
GIVE NONE OFFENSE, NEITHER TO THE JEWS, NOR TO THE GENTILES, NOR TO THE CHURCH OF GOD;... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN AS I PLEASE ALL MEN IN ALL THINGS, NOT SEEKING MINE OWN PROFIT, BUT THE PROFIT OF MANY, THAT THEY MAY BE SAVED. In applying the principle of Christian love, the apostle states a general maxim of Christian duty. No matter in what particular situation of everyday life a believer may find himself,... [ Continue Reading ]