1 Corinthians 10:2-16 - Instructions For Public Worship
2 and were all baptized into the Mosaical institution by the cloud, and by the sea; 3 they all eat the same spiritual meat, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of what flowed from the spiritual rock: and that rock was Christ.) 5 but with the greater part God was not well pleased: for their carcasses were strown in the wilderness.
6 now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did. 7 be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." 8 neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day. 9 neither let us provoke Christ as some of them provoked him, and were destroyed by serpents. 10 neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were slain by the destroying angel. 11 All these things happened to them for examples: and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. 12 wherefore let him that thinks he stands firm, take heed lest he fall. 13 you have met with no trials yet, but such as are common to men: and God who is faithful, will not suffer you to be tempted above your strength; but will with the temptation make a way to escape, by enabling you to bear it.
14 wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak as to knowing men: be you your selves the judges of what I say. 16 the cup of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?