ot as striking the air: (27)but I beat down my
body, and bring it into subjection, that I may not by any means, after
having preached to others, myself become reprobate.

CHAP. X.

BUT I would not that you should be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers
were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; (2)and were
all baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; (3)and did all eat
the same spiritual meat; (4)and did all drink the same spiritual drink:
for they drank of that spiritual rock which followed them; but that
rock was Christ. (5)Nevertheless with the most of them God was not well
pleased, for they were destroyed in the wilderness.

(6)Now these things were examples for us, that we might not be coveters
of evil things, as they also coveted. (7)Neither be ye idolaters as
some of them; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink,
and rose up to sport themselves[94]." (8)Neither let us commit
whoredom, as some of them also committed, and in one day fell
twenty-three thousand[95]. (9)Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of
them also tempted[96], and were destroyed by serpents. (10)Neither
murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and perished by the
destroyer[97]. (11)Now all these things happened unto them as examples,
but they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages
are come. (12)Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed
lest he fall.

(13)No temptation hath overtaken you, but what is common to men. And
God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye
are able to bear; but will with the temptation make also a way to
escape, that ye may be able to bear up under it.

(14)Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. (15)I speak as unto wise
men: judge ye what I say. (16)The cup of blessing which we bless, is it
not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is
it not the communion of the body of Christ? (17)For we, though many,
are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf.

(18)Behold Israel after the flesh. Are not they who eat of the
sacrifices partakers with the altar? (19)What do I say then? that an
idol is any thing, or that which is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?
(20)But that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to daemons,
and not to God: and I would not have you in communion with daemons.
(21)Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of daemons: ye
cannot be partakers of the