1 Corinthians 10:1–11

Warnings from Israel’s History

¹⁰I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,^{* 2}and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, ³and all ate the same spiritual food,^{* 4}and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.^{* 5}Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.^*

⁶Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did.^{* 7}Do not become idolaters as some of them did, as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.”^{* 8}We must not engage in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.^{* 9}We must not put Christⁿ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents.^{* 10}And do not complain, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.^{* 11}These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.^*