1 Corinthians 10:2-16 - Instructions For Public Worship

² and in the cloud and the sea all, as it were, accepted baptism as followers of Moses, ³ and all ate the same supernatural food ⁴ and drank the same supernatural drink??for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which attended them, and the rock was really Christ??5 still most of them disappointed God, for they were struck down in the desert.

⁶ Now these things happened to warn us, so that we should not long for what is evil as they did. ⁷ You must not become idolaters, like some of them, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance." ⁸ Let us not practice immorality, like some of them, twenty-three thousand of whom fell dead in one day, ⁹ Let us not try the Lord's patience too far, as some of them did, for they were killed for it by the snakes. ¹⁰ You must not grumble, as some of them did, for they were destroyed for it by the destroying angel. ¹¹ These things happened to them as a warning to others, but they were written down to instruct us, in whose days the ages have reached their climax. ¹² So the man who thinks he can stand must be on his guard against a fall. ¹³ It is no superhuman temptation that you have had. And God can be depended on, not to let you be tried beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to give you a way out of it, so that you can withstand it.

¹⁴ Therefore, my dear brothers, have nothing to do with the worship of idols. ¹⁵ I appeal to your good sense. Make up your minds about what I say. ¹⁶ Does not the consecrated cup which we bless mean that in drinking it we share in the blood of Christ? Does not the bread that we break mean that in eating it we share in the body of Christ?