1 Corinthians 10:5–14

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.

¹⁴Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols.