These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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1 Corinthians 10
Brit Hadashah 33 verses
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For I would have you , brethren, how our forefathers were all of them sheltered by the cloud, and all got safely through the Red Sea.
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Exodus 14:29 Nehemiah 9:11-12 Psalm 66:6 Psalm 78:13-14 Psalm 105:39 Isaiah 58:11-13 Deuteronomy 1:33 Psalm 77:16-20 Romans 11:21 Romans 4:11 Numbers 33:8 Numbers 14:14 1 Corinthians 14:38 Psalm 114:3-5 Revelation 15:2-3 John 4:20 Hebrews 11:29 Galatians 3:29 Numbers 9:15-22 Exodus 40:34 Exodus 13:21-22 Psalm 106:7-11 Psalm 78:53 1 Corinthians 12:1 Exodus 14:19-22 Joshua 4:23 Psalm 136:13-15 Nehemiah 9:19 -
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All were baptized in the cloud and in the sea to be followers of .
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All ate the same spiritual food,
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and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they long drank the water that flowed from the spiritual rock that went with them—and that rock was the .
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Exodus 17:6 Numbers 20:11 Psalm 78:15 John 4:10 Isaiah 43:20 Psalm 78:20 Isaiah 48:21 John 4:14 John 7:37 Hebrews 10:1 Galatians 4:25 Daniel 2:38 Deuteronomy 9:21 Matthew 13:38-39 Matthew 26:26-28 Psalm 105:41 Ezekiel 5:4-5 1 Corinthians 11:24-25 Genesis 41:26 Genesis 40:12 Colossians 2:17 Revelation 22:17 - 5 But with most of them was not well pleased; for they were laid low in the Desert.
- 6 And in this they became a warning to us, to teach us not to be eager, as they were eager, in pursuit of what is evil.
- 7 And you must not be worshippers of idols, as some of them were. For it is written, “The People sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance.”
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Nor may we be fornicators, like some of them who committed fornication and on a single day 23,000 of them fell dead.
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- 9 And do not let us test the Lord too far, as some of them tested Him and were destroyed by the serpents.
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And do not be discontented, as some of them were, and they were destroyed by the Destroyer.
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2 Samuel 24:16 Exodus 12:23 1 Chronicles 21:15 Numbers 16:41 Hebrews 11:28 Psalm 106:25 Philippians 2:14 Numbers 14:2 Numbers 14:37 Jude 1:16 Revelation 16:1 Exodus 15:24 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8 Exodus 16:2-9 2 Chronicles 32:21 Exodus 17:2-3 Numbers 16:46-49 Acts 12:23 Matthew 13:39-42 Numbers 14:27-30 - 11 All this kept happening to them with a figurative meaning; but it was put on record by way of admonition to us upon whom the ends of the Ages have come.
- 12 So then let him who thinks he is standing securely beware of falling.
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No temptation has you in its power but such as is common to human nature; and is faithful and will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. But, when the temptation comes, He will also provide the way of escape; so that you may be able to bear it.
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2 Peter 2:9 2 Timothy 4:18 1 Peter 5:8-9 Luke 22:46 Daniel 3:17 Ephesians 6:12-13 Hebrews 12:4 1 Thessalonians 5:24 Romans 8:28-39 Revelation 2:10 2 Thessalonians 3:3 Revelation 3:10 1 Peter 1:5-7 John 10:28-30 Matthew 24:21-24 James 5:10-11 2 Corinthians 12:8-10 1 Corinthians 1:9 1 Peter 4:19 1 John 1:9 Hebrews 10:23 Isaiah 11:5 2 Timothy 2:11-13 Hebrews 11:11 Jeremiah 29:11 Isaiah 25:1 Lamentations 3:23 Deuteronomy 7:9 Genesis 19:20-21 2 Corinthians 11:23-28 Psalm 125:3 Hebrews 6:18 Jeremiah 12:5 Exodus 3:17 2 Corinthians 1:10 Isaiah 49:7 Psalm 89:33 Revelation 19:11 Luke 16:26 Luke 22:31-32 Psalm 124:7 Psalm 36:5 Hebrews 11:35-38 Hosea 2:20 Acts 27:44 Luke 11:4 - 14 Therefore, my dear friends, avoid all connection with the of idols.
- 15 I speak as to men of sense: judge for yourselves of what I say.
- 16 The cup of , which we , does it not mean a joint-participation in the of ? The loaf of bread which we break, does it not mean a joint-participation in the body of ?
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Since there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; we, all of us, share in that one loaf.
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- 18 Look at the Israelites—the nation and their ritual. Are not those who eat the sacrifices joint-partakers in the ?
- 19 Do I mean that a thing sacrificed to an idol is what it claims to be, or that an idol is a real thing?
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No, but that which the Gentiles , they to demons, not to ; and I would not have you have with one another through the demons.
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- 21 You cannot drink the Lord’s cup and the cup of demons: you cannot be joint-partakers both in the table of the Lord and in the table of demons.
- 22 Or are we actually arousing the Lord to jealousy. Are we stronger than He is?
- 23 You say : "Everything is allowable" ? Maybe, but not everything is profitable. "Everything is allowable" ? Maybe, but everything does not build others up.
- 24 Let no one be for ever seeking his own good, but let each seek that of his fellow man.
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Anything that is for sale in the meat market, eat, and ask no questions for conscience’ sake;
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for the earth is the Lord’s, and all that it contains.
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- 27 If an unbeliever gives you an invitation and you are disposed to accept it, eat whatever is put before you, and ask no questions for conscience’ sake.
- 28 But if any one tells you, “This food has been offered in ;” abstain from eating it—out of respect for him who warned you, and, as before, for conscience’ sake.
- 29 But now I mean his conscience, not your own. “Why, on what ground,” you may object, “is the question of my liberty of action to be decided by a conscience not my own?
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If, so far as I am concerned, I partake with a grateful , why am I to be found fault with in regard to a thing for which I give thanks?”
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- 31 Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the of .
- 32 Do not be causes of stumbling either to Jews or to Gentiles, nor to the Church of .
- 33 That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the that they may be saved.