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

¹ For I would not have you, brothers, to be ignorant of the fact that though our forefathers were all made safe by the cloud, and all went securely through the sea, and in the cloud and the sea ² they all allowed themselves to be baptized as followers of Moses, ³ and all ate the same spiritual food, ⁴ and all drank the same spiritual drink -- for they continued to drink the water from the spiritual Rock which accompanied them, and that Rock was the Christ -- ⁵ still with the most of them God was not at all satisfied, for He allowed them to be laid low in the desert.

⁶ Now all these things occurred as warnings to us, to keep us from hankering after what is evil, in the ways they did. ⁷ Now stop being idolaters, as some of them were, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance." ⁸ Let us stop practicing immorality, as some of them did, and on one day twenty-three thousand fell dead. ⁹ Let us stop trying the Lord's patience, as some of them did, and for it were destroyed by the snakes. ¹⁰ You must stop grumbling, as some of them did, and for it were destroyed by the destroying angel. ¹¹ Those things continued to befall them as warnings to others, and they were written down for the purpose of instructing us, in whose lives the climax of the ages has been reached. ¹² So the man who thinks he stands securely must be on the lookout not to fall. ¹³ No temptation has taken hold of you but what is common to human nature. And God is to be trusted not to let you be tempted beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to make a way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.