1 Corinthians 9:24–10:13

²⁴Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain. ²⁵But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. ²⁶I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air. ²⁷But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest after having preached to others I should be myself rejected.

Chapter 10

¹For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; ²and all were baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; ³and all ate the same spiritual food, ⁴and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them: (now the rock was the Christ;) ⁵yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

⁶But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted. ⁷Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. ⁸Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. ⁹Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents. ¹⁰Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer. ¹¹Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. ¹²So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. ¹³No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man’s nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that ye should be able to bear it.