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

² and were all baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea; ³ and did all eat the same spiritual food; ⁴ and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was an emblem of Christ. ⁵ But with the greater part of them God was displeased: for they were destroyed in the wilderness.

⁶ Now these things were examples for us, that we might not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. ⁷ And be ye not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." ⁸ Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. ⁹ Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted Him, and were destroyed by serpents: nor murmur, ¹⁰ as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer. ¹¹ Now all these things happened to them as examples: and are written for our admonition, on whom the last ages are come. ¹² Wherefore let him, that thinks he standeth, take heed least he fall. ¹³ No temptation has yet taken you but what is common to man: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to sustain; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

¹⁴ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, flee from idolatry. ¹⁵ I speak to you as to men of understanding: and judge ye what I say, ¹⁶ ---The cup of blessing 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?