^{1 Ref} Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

^{2 Ref} and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

^{3 Ref} and all ate the same spiritual food;

^{4 Ref} and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

^{5 Ref} However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

^{6 Ref} Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

^{7 Ref} Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

^{8 Ref} Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

^{9 Ref} Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

^{10 Ref} Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

^{11 Ref} Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

^{12 Ref} Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.