Warning Against Overconfidence. 1^* I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,^a 2and all of them were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.^b 3All ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them,^* and the rock was the Christ.^c 5Yet God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the desert.^d

6^* These things happened as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil things, as they did.^e 7And do not become idolaters, as some of them did, as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.”^f 8Let us not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell within a single day.^g 9Let us not test Christ^* as some of them did, and suffered death by serpents.^h 10Do not grumble as some of them did, and suffered death by the destroyer.ⁱ 11These things happened to them as an example, and they have been written down as a warning to us, upon whom the end of the ages has come.^* 12Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing secure should take care not to fall.^* 13No trial has come to you but what is human. God is faithful and will not let you be tried beyond your strength; but with the trial he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to bear it.^j