1 Corinthians 10:1–10

Warnings From Israel’s History

10 For I do not want you to be ignorants of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloudt and that they all passed through the sea.u 2 They were all baptized intov Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual foodw 4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rockx that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.y

6 Now these things occurred as examplesz to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. 7 Do not be idolaters,a as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”a b 8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.c 9 We should not test Christ,b d as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.e 10 And do not grumble, as some of them didf—and were killedg by the destroying angel.h