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1Cor.10:5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
10:7 Neither 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} 10:8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. 10:9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents. 10:10 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. 10:11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 10:12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall. 10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
10:14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

The apostle Paul speak of a list of evils the nation of Israel did in displeasing God, once out of Egypt under Moses leadership. Then in tells us that these are examples for us the spiritual body of Christ the congregation of the living God, but Paul states afterwords, he speak to the wise, who are the wise? It is important the contexts of Paul's letter to the Corinthian's so we don't run with a thought doing more damage to others person faith.

1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?"{Isaiah 40:13} But we have Christ's mind.

The wise have the mind of the body of Christ, which is, the mind of God given to Christ and us, if we walk in Spirit and truth. Wisdom is a gift of God's Holy Spirit generously given if we ask for it. The nation of Israel as a whole became self-righteous, but how could that happen when each person under the law had to atone for their sins, which should of told them there was no self-righteousness before God? Righteousness came from the innocent blood of animals paying for their unrighteousness. However, such thinking alluded most of them making them a practicers of sin unwittingly. It was just that simple, but profoundly the biggest blunder a person could have made as a Jew, and what was that?

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

Thinking the law declared a person a non-sinner by personal efforts, that is, good works instead of the blood. In other words, if one cannot stop sinning, and the law only proves that further, and blood is not provided from God to pay for your sins, than you are a practicers of sin wittingly or unwittingly. Here than is the context Paul speaks to as to the wise among the body of Christ, recalling Israels failures in lack of faith in the blood of atonement while putting faith in works of law.

Galatians 3:11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."{Habakkuk 2:4}

1 Timothy 1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Christian's had been freed from the judgment of the Old Law, but did this give them an excuse to practice sin again, isn't that the real question? If you have no sin accounted against you does that mean a person can just sin without consequences? Here is the context, not bring the law back, and judging and condemning one another. Hence, producing a religious organization like history shows in destroying those practicing evil, by the sword, or in torture chambers under a church!

1 John 2:1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor{Greek Parakleton: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comfortor.} with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

1 John 2:29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.

Wises person knows having God's Spirit, the issue is Christ righteousness obtain from faith, not works of law, not one person can put away the filth of their flesh, not one person can become a non-sinner without being grafted into the body of Christ; God's righteous for us. Those declaring themselves righteous by self-efforts find themselves in truly an unobtainable circumstance which Christ shocked the self-righteous Jews in saying this:

Matt. 5:27 "You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} 'You shall not commit adultery;'{Exodus 20:14}
5:28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
5:29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.{or, Hell}

Christ went too the heart, its lust as evil, not waiting until it acted in adultery proving no one was righteous as a sinner at our core, our hearts. Christ words here should sober up a wise person into real humility to understand the context of Paul's words here. Let us not delude ourselves like Israel, we are not righteous, nor can any of us stop practicing sin on our own. We have been given a gift of undeserved kindness by God in the name of Christ Jesus whom never sinned or lusted for the opposite sex in his heart. With all humility then let us thank God for substituting Christ righteousness for our own unrighteousness, and not be foolishly thinking we can mock God for having our sins removed.

Galatians 6:7 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

1Cor.3:10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it. 3:11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. 3:12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble; 3:13 each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.
3:14 If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. 3:15 If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire. 3:16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

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