📖WEB · 1 Corinthians 10:9
What does 1 Corinthians 10:9 mean?
"Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents."
— 1 Corinthians 10:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”
Let us not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
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.
Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
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