1 Corinthians 9:24–10:13

²⁴Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain.

²⁵And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one.

²⁶I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air.

²⁷But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

Chapter 10

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea.

²And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea:

³And did all eat the same spiritual food:

⁴And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.)

⁵But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

⁶Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

⁷Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

⁸Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

⁹Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished by the serpent.

¹⁰Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

¹¹Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

¹²Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall.

¹³Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.