4. and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

5. However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

6. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

7. 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."Exodus 32:6

8. Let us not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

9. Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.