1 Corinthians 3:19
3:19 For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “
He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
1
1 Corinthians 9:9-10
9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, “
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.”
2 God is not concerned here about oxen, is he?
9:10 Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.
1 Corinthians 10:7
10:7 So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “
The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”
3
1 Corinthians 10:11
10:11 These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
1 Corinthians 14:21
14:21 It is written in the law: “
By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,”
4 says the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:45
15:45 So also it is written, “
The first man, Adam, became a living person”;
5 the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:54
15:54 Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen,
“Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 6
1 sn A quotation from Job 5:13.
2 sn A quotation from Deut 25:4.
3 tn The term “play” may refer to idolatrous, sexual play here, although that is determined by the context rather than the meaning of the word itself (cf. BDAG 750 s.v. παίζω).
4 sn A quotation from Isa 28:11-12.
5 tn Grk “living soul”; a quotation from Gen 2:7.
6 sn A quotation from Isa 25:8.