“If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” 1 Corinthians 15:32 (NAS)

The Holy Spirit here in this section of Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church, moves the apostle to reference a passage from the book of Isaiah. 

“I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’ ” John 13:18 (NAS)

Jesus, while partaking of His last Passover meal and instituting the Lord’s supper for the congregants of the New Covenant, quotes from a Psalm of David regarding the treachery of a trusted, close friend. 

‘In the Law it is written, “By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to Me,” says the Lord. 1 Corinthians 14:21-22 (NAS)

The Holy Spirit moves the apostle Paul to quote from the scroll of Isaiah as part of his discourse on speaking in tongues in the assemblies. 

“But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him; that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, ‘Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?’ ” John 12:37-38 (NAS)

Twice this quote from the book of Isaiah is cited by apostles of Jesus Christ. 

“And the tempter came and said to Him, ‘If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.’  But He answered and said, ‘It is written, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’ ” (Matthew 4:3-4) NAS

When tempted by the Devil (C. f. Luke 4:3) to whip up a little miracle food for Himself while in the wilderness undergoing Satan’s testing and taunting, Jesus answered and overcame the temptation with memorized Scripture from the Pentateuch. 

“But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, ‘Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’ ” 1Corinthians 15:54-55 (NAS)

This Old Testament quote to the Corinthian church by the apostle Paul was originally penned through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit by the prophet Hosea.

“And you brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise. But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also. But what does the Scripture say? ‘Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be an heir with the son of the free woman.’  So then, brethren, we are not children of a bondwoman, but of the free woman.” Galatians 4:28-31 (NAS)

The apostle Paul here cites an Old Testament passage from the first book of the Bible, Genesis. 

“For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, ‘I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply you.’ And thus, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.” Hebrews 6:13-15 (NAS) Outside of Romans, the gospel of Matthew and the book of…

“But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were crying out in the temple and saying, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David,’ they became indignant, and said to Him, ‘Do You hear what these are saying? And Jesus said to them, ‘Yes; have…

“This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,  ‘The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles– The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death, upon them a light dawned.’ ” Matthew 4:12-16 (NAS)

Matthew, moved by the Holy Spirit, cites another messianic reference by the prophet Isaiah.