Warning Against Idolatry

¹For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,1 that our fathers were all under bthe cloud, and all cpassed through the sea, ²and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, ³and dall ate the same espiritual food, ⁴and fall drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. ⁵Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for gthey were overthrown2 in the wilderness.

⁶Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as hthey did. ⁷iDo not be idolaters jas some of them were; as it is written, k“The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” ⁸lWe must not indulge in sexual immorality mas some of them did, and ntwenty-three thousand fell in a single day. ⁹We must not put Christ3 to the test, oas some of them did and pwere destroyed by serpents, ¹⁰nor grumble, qas some of them did and rwere destroyed by sthe Destroyer. ¹¹Now these things happened to them as an example, but tthey were written down for our instruction, uon whom the end of the ages has come. ¹²Therefore vlet anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. ¹³No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. wGod is faithful, and xhe will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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