1 Corinthians 10:1–11

Warnings from Israel’s Past

10Now I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers ^dwere all under the cloud, ^eall passed through the sea, ^f2and all were baptized ^ginto Moses ^hin the cloud and in the sea. ³They all ate the same spiritual food, ⁱ⁴and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock ^jthat followed them, and that rock was Christ. ^k5But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness. ^l

⁶Now these things became examples for us, so that we will not desire ^mevil things as they did. ^no7Don’t become idolaters ^pas some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play. ^qrs8Let us not commit sexual immorality ^tas some of them did, ^uand in a single day 23,000 people fell dead. ^v9Let us not test Christ as some of them did ^wand were destroyed by snakes. ^x10Nor should we complain ^yas some of them did, ^zaand were killed by the destroyer. ^bc11Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, ^don whom the ends of the ages ^ehave come. ^f