Warnings against Idols

10 ^(A)I want you to remember, my friends, what happened to our ancestors who followed Moses. They were all under the protection of the cloud, and all passed safely through the Red Sea. ² In the cloud and in the sea they were all baptized as followers of Moses. ^3 (B)All ate the same spiritual bread ^4 (C)and drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them; and that rock was Christ himself. ^5 (D)But even then God was not pleased with most of them, and so their dead bodies were scattered over the desert.

^6 (E)Now, all of this is an example for us, to warn us not to desire evil things, as they did,

^10 (A)We must not complain, as some of them did—and they were destroyed by the Angel of Death.

¹¹ All these things happened to them as examples for others, and they were written down as a warning for us. For we live at a time when the end is about to come.

¹² If you think you are standing firm you had better be careful that you do not fall.