The Warning and the Way Out

6These things became examples for us, so that we might not be people who desire evil things, just as they also desired them.

7Do not become idolaters, as some of them were; just as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

8Nor should we commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

9Nor should we put Messiah to the test, as some of them tested him and were being destroyed by the snakes.

10And do not grumble, just as some of them grumbled and were destroyed by the destroyer.

11These things happened to them as examples, but they were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

12Therefore, let the one who thinks he stands watch out lest he fall.

13No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to man. But God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also provide the way out, so that you may be able to endure it.