Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
1 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.
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For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea.
2 In the cloud and in the sea they were all baptized as followers of Moses.
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They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
3 All ate the same spiritual bread
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They all ate the same spiritual food
4 and drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them; and that rock was Christ himself.
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and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
5 But even then God was not pleased with most of them, and so their dead bodies were scattered over the desert.
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Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
6 Now, all of this is an example for us, to warn us not to desire evil things, as they did,
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Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.
7 nor to worship idols, as some of them did. As the scripture says, "The people sat down to a feast which turned into an orgy of drinking and sex."
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Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”
8 We must not be guilty of sexual immorality, as some of them were - and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell dead.
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We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
9 We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did - and they were killed by snakes.
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We should not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.
10 We must not complain, as some of them did - and they were destroyed by the Angel of Death.
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And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.
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.
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These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.
12 If you think you are standing firm you had better be careful that you do not fall.
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So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!
13 Every test that you have experienced is the kind that normally comes to people. But God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test, he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out.
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No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
14 So then, my dear friends, keep away from the worship of idols.
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Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak to you as sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
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I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
16 The cup we use in the Lord's Supper and for which we give thanks to God: when we drink from it, we are sharing in the blood of Christ. And the bread we break: when we eat it, we are sharing in the body of Christ.
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Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
17 Because there is the one loaf of bread, all of us, though many, are one body, for we all share the same loaf.
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Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.
18 Consider the people of Israel; those who eat what is offered in sacrifice share in the altar's service to God.
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Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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