1 Corinthians 10:1-13 - A History Lesson From Israel

¹ For I would not have you ignorant, brothers, how our fathers 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. ³ They all ate of the same spiritual bread, ⁴ and all drank from the same spiritual stream, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. ⁵ But in most of them God was not well pleased, for they were laid low in the desert.

⁶ Now this happened as a warning for us, that we might not long for evil things as they longed. ⁷ And you must not be idolaters like some of them. as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, And they rose up for idol dances. ⁸ Nor must we act licentiously, as some of them did, and fell in a single day, twenty-three thousand of them. ⁹ Neither must we presume upon the patience of our Lord, as some of them presumed, and were destroyed by the serpents; ¹⁰ nor murmur, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel. ¹¹ Now these things were happening to them typically, but were written down for our admonition who stand at the meeting of the ages. ¹² So then let him who imagines that he is standing so securely beware lest he fall. ¹³ No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond man's power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.