1 Corinthians 10:1–11

Avoid Israel’s Mistakes

¹For ^aI do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all ^bunder the cloud and all ^cpassed through the sea;

²and all were ^abaptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

³and all ^aate the same spiritual food;

⁴and all ^adrank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was ¹Christ.

⁵Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for ^athey were laid low in the wilderness.

⁶Now these things happened as ^aexamples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as ^bthey also craved.

⁷Do not be ^aidolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, “^bThe people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to ^cplay.”

⁸Nor let us act immorally, as ^asome of them ¹did, and ^btwenty-three thousand fell in one day.

⁹Nor let us try the Lord, as ^asome of them ¹did, and were destroyed by the serpents.

¹⁰Nor ^agrumble, as some of them ¹did, and ^bwere destroyed by the ^cdestroyer.

¹¹Now these things happened to them as an ^aexample, and ^bthey were written for our instruction, upon whom ^cthe ends of the ages have come.