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

¹ BUT I would not that you should be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; ² and were all baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; ³ and did all eat the same spiritual meat; ⁴ and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual rock which followed them; but that rock was Christ. ⁵ Nevertheless with the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were destroyed in the wilderness.

⁶ Now these things were examples for us, that we might not be coveters of evil things, as they also coveted. ⁷ Neither be ye idolaters as some of them; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to sport themselves." ⁸ Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of them also committed, and in one day fell twenty-three thousand. ⁹ Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. ¹⁰ Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and perished by the destroyer. ¹¹ Now all these things happened unto them as examples, but they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages are come. ¹² Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall. ¹³ No temptation hath overtaken you, but what is common to men. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to bear; but will with the temptation make also a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear up under it.