Warnings from Israel's Example: Avoid Idolatry and Temptation
1 Corinthians 10:1-13
1For I do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea.2And all were baptized toward Moses in the cloud and in the sea.3And all ate the same spiritual food.4And all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was the Christ.5But God did not delight in most of them, for they were thrown down in the deserted place.6These things then became examples for us, so that we might not be ones who desire evil things, just as those ones also longed for.7Nor become idolaters, just as some of them did, as it is written: the people sat down to eat and to drink and rose up to play.8Nor let us commit sexual sin, just as some of them committed sexual sin, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.9Nor let us put the Christ to the test, just as some of them put him to the test, and they were perishing by the snakes.10Nor grumble, just as some of them grumbled, and they perished by the destroyer.11These things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.12Therefore let the one who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.13No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also provide the way of escape so that you may be able to endure.