1 Corinthians 10:1-8 ▼

1 And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

2 and all were immersed into Moses in the cloud, and in the sea;

3 and all ate the same spiritual food,

4 and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ;

5 but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,

6 and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these desired.

7 Neither become idolaters, as certain of them, as it has been written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play”;

8 neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them committed whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;