Obedience is Pleasing to God
1 Corinthians 10:5: But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
That Rock Was Christ
1 Corinthians 10:3–4: All ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
Do Not Be Unaware
1 Corinthians 10:1: Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea.
Staying Qualified
1 Corinthians 9:27: But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
Run with Certainty
1 Corinthians 9:26: Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.
Motivation in Competition
1 Corinthians 9:25: And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.
Enter the Race
1 Corinthians 9:24: Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.
For the Gospel’s Sake
1 Corinthians 9:23: Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.
Became All Things, To All
1 Corinthians 9:22: To the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.