1 Corinthians 10:1-11

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Warnings from Israel’s Past

10 Now I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers^(A) were all under the cloud,^(B) all passed through the sea,^{(C) 2} and all were baptized^(D) into Moses^(E) in the cloud and in the sea. ³ They all ate the same spiritual food,^{(F) 4} and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock^(G) that followed them, and that rock was Christ.^{(H) 5} But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.^(I)

⁶ Now these things became examples for us, so that we will not desire^(J) evil things as they did.^{[a](K) 7} Don’t become idolaters^(L) as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play.^{[b](M)[c] 8} Let us not commit sexual immorality^(N) as some of them did,^[d] and in a single day 23,000 people fell dead.^{(O) 9} Let us not test Christ as some of them did^[e] and were destroyed by snakes.^{(P) 10} Nor should we complain^(Q) as some of them did,^[f](R) and were killed by the destroyer.^{[g](S) 11} Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us,^(T) on whom the ends of the ages^(U) have come.^(V)