1 Corinthians 10

¹For it is my desire, my brothers, that you may keep in mind how all our fathers were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea;

²And they all had baptism from Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

³And they all took the same holy food;

⁴And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.

⁵But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.

⁶Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

⁷Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

⁸Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

⁹And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

¹⁰And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them.

¹¹Now these things were done as an example; and were put down in writing for our teaching, on whom the last days have come.

¹²So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.

¹³You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.