1 Corinthians 10:1–11

Warnings From Israel’s History

10For I do not want you to be ignorant^s of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud^t and that they all passed through the sea.^{u 2}They were all baptized into^v Moses in the cloud and in the sea. ³They all ate the same spiritual food^{w 4}and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock^x that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. ⁵Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.^y

⁶Now these things occurred as examples^z to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. ⁷Do 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.”^{ab 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,^bd as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.^{e 10}And do not grumble, as some of them did^f—and were killed^g by the destroying angel.^h

¹¹These things happened to them as examplesⁱ and were written down as warnings for us,^j on whom the culmination of the ages has come.^k