1 Corinthians 10:1-10

1My Christian friends, remember what happened to our Israelite ancestors. Moses led them out of Egypt long ago. While they followed Moses, they all walked under the same cloud. All of them walked across the Red Sea.

2It is like God baptized all of them in the cloud and in the sea. In that way, they became people who followed Moses.

3All our ancestors ate the same spiritual food.

4All of them drank the same spiritual drink. They drank water from the spiritual rock that went with them. Christ was that rock.

5They all received the same help from God, but most of them did not please God. God caused most of them to die in the wilderness.

6We must learn from those things that happened to our ancestors. We must not want to do very bad things, like they did.

7Do not worship idols, as some of them did. The Bible says: ‘The people sat down to eat and to drink. After that, they got up from their meal and they danced.’

8Nor must we ever have sex in wrong ways. Some of our ancestors did that, and 23,000 of them died in one day as a result.

9Nor must we do bad things to see whether the Lord will punish us. Some of our ancestors did that, and God sent snakes to destroy them.

10Do not complain against God. Some of our ancestors spoke like that, and God sent an angel of death to kill them.