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1 Corinthians 10 Bible study: Do all to the glory of God

1 Corinthians 10 says all five times in 10:1-4 before "However with most of them, God was not well pleased" (10:5). It says, "God is faithful" (10:13), as 1:9 does, and it says, "do all to the glory of God" (10:31).

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“Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
1 Corinthians 10:31 · World English Bible

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Our fathers were all under the cloud

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The chapter opens by looking back: "Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ." (10:1-4). Then: "However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness." (10:5). Favor's introduction to 1 Corinthians begins a new part of the letter at 10:1, Do all to the glory of God, which runs on to 11:1. These notes say no more of baptized into Moses (10:2), the spiritual food and spiritual drink (10:3-4), or the rock (10:4) than the verses say. Map lines drawn by Favor's Old Testament chapters land in these verses (see Go deeper).

Where the Old Testament leads here

Baptized into Moses

In the text

Exodus 14:22leads to1 Corinthians 10:1-4

"The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground" (14:22), with the pillar of cloud behind them (14:19). Paul writes that "our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea" (1 Corinthians 10:1-2). In the same passage he names Christ, not as the sea but as the rock they drank from: "the rock was Christ" (1 Corinthians 10:4). Of all these things he says, "they were written for our admonition" (1 Corinthians 10:11). Paul calls the crossing a baptism into Moses and an example; he says nothing more about the sea than that.

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The Greek word behind it

πιστόςpistossay pis-TOS

Strong's: "objectively, trustworthy; subjectively, trustful". "God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able" (10:13). Favor's introduction to 1 Corinthians sets this verse beside 1:9, the other verse in the WEB's 1 Corinthians with the words God is faithful. 1 Corinthians has the word five times (counted in RP2018; in all eight editions TAGNT compares), and in 7:25 the WEB gives it as trustworthy: "as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy" (7:25). Favor's 1 Corinthians 4 sets its two uses in that chapter beside 1:9, and Favor's Luke 16 studies the word in Luke.

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1 Corinthians 10 Bible study questions

  1. 1"God is faithful" (10:13). What helps you remember that on an ordinary day?
  2. 2"Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good." (10:24). Where this week could seeking someone else's good look different from what you would choose for yourself?
  3. 3"Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." (10:31). What ordinary part of your week would look different if you did it to the glory of God?

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