1 Corinthians 9:24–10:13

²⁴Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth ^wthe prize? So ^xrun, that ye may ^yobtain. ²⁵And every man that ^zstriveth for the mastery ^ais temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible ^bcrown; but we an ^cincorruptible. ²⁶I therefore so ^xrun, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that ^ccbeateth the air: ²⁷But ^dI ^ekeep under my body, and ^fbring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, ^gI myself should be ^ha castaway.

10Moreover, brethren, ^aI would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under ^aathe cloud, and all passed through ^bthe sea; ²And were all baptized ^cunto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; ³And did all eat the same ^dspiritual meat; ⁴And did all drink the same ^espiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that ^||followed them: and that Rock was Christ. ⁵But with many of them ^fGod was not well pleased: for ^gthey were overthrown in the wilderness. ⁶Now these things were ^†our ^hexamples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as ⁱthey also lusted. ⁷Neither be ye ^kidolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, ^lThe people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. ⁸Neither let us ^mcommit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day ⁿthree and twenty thousand. ⁹Neither let us tempt Christ, as ^osome of them also tempted, and ^pwere destroyed of serpents. ¹⁰Neither murmur ye, as ^qsome of them also murmured, and ^rwere destroyed of ^sthe destroyer. ¹¹Now all these things happened unto them for ^||hensamples: and ^tthey are written for our admonition, ^uupon whom the ends of the world are come. ¹²Wherefore ^xlet him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. ¹³There hath no temptation taken you but such as is ^||common to man: but ^yGod is faithful, ^zwho will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a ^away to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.