1 Corinthians 10:9

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And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

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  • Num 21:5-6 : 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.” 6 So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.
  • Exod 17:7 : 7 He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the LORD, saying,“Is the LORD among us or not?”
  • Ps 78:18 : 18 They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.
  • Exod 17:2 : 2 So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?”
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.
  • Ps 95:9 : 9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.
  • Heb 3:8-9 : 8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness. 9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years. 10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said,‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’ 11 “As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”
  • Deut 6:16 : 16 Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.
  • Exod 23:20-21 : 20 The Angel of the Presence“I am going to send an angel before you to protect you as you journey and to bring you into the place that I have prepared. 21 Take heed because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.
  • Heb 10:28-30 : 28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know the one who said,“Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again,“The Lord will judge his people.”

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    10And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

    11These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

    12So let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

    13No trial has overtaken you that is not faced by others. And God is faithful: He will not let you be tried beyond what you are able to bear, but with the trial will also provide a way out so that you may be able to endure it.

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    5But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

    6These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

    7So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written,“The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”

    8And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

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    16Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.

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    6So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.

    7Then the people came to Moses and said,“We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD that he would take away the snakes from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

    8The LORD said to Moses,“Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”

    9So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.

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    8“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

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    13Let no one say when he is tempted,“I am tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

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    14In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.

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    8He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

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    10So now why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

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    22Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

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    12Jesus answered him,“It is said,‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”

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    22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

    23they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

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    16For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?

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    5Now I desire to remind you(even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

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    18They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

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    56Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.

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    15and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

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    22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

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    11Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

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    16Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Peor– which resulted in the plague among the community of the LORD!

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    32Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.

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    14Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

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    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

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