24 (A)Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives (B)the prize? (C)Run in such a way that you may win. 25 Everyone who (D)competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. So they do it to obtain a perishable (E)wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 Therefore I (F)run in such a way as not to run aimlessly; I box in such a way, as [a]to avoid (G)hitting air; 27 but I strictly discipline (H)my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Avoid Israel’s Mistakes

10 For (I)I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all (J)under the cloud and they all (K)passed through the sea; and they all were (L)baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and they all (M)ate the same spiritual food, and all (N)drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was [b]Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased; for their dead bodies were (O)spread out in the wilderness.

Now these things happened as (P)examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as (Q)they indeed craved them. Do not be (R)idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “(S)The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to (T)play.” Nor are we to commit sexual immorality, as (U)some of them [c]did, and (V)twenty-three thousand fell in one day. Nor are we to put the Lord to the test, as (W)some of them [d]did, and were killed by the snakes. 10 Nor (X)grumble, as some of them [e]did, and (Y)were killed by the (Z)destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as an (AA)example, and (AB)they were written for our instruction, upon whom (AC)the ends of the ages have come. 12 Therefore let the one who (AD)thinks he stands watch out that he does not fall.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:26 Lit not hitting
  2. 1 Corinthians 10:4 I.e., the Messiah
  3. 1 Corinthians 10:8 Lit committed sexual immorality
  4. 1 Corinthians 10:9 Lit made trial
  5. 1 Corinthians 10:10 Lit grumbled

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