Charles Ellicott Commentary 1 Corinthians 10:12

"Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." — 1 Corinthians 10:12 (ASV)

Therefore. This is the practical conclusion of the whole matter. We are to look back on that remarkable record of splendid privilege and of terrible fall and learn from it the solemn lesson of self-distrust. Led forth by divinely appointed leaders, overshadowed by the Divine Presence, supported by divinely given food and drink, the vast hosts of Israel had passed from the bondage of Egypt into the glorious liberty of children of the living God; yet among all those who seemed to stand so secure in their relation to God, only a few did not fall.

Christians, called forth from a more deadly bondage into a more glorious liberty, are in similar peril. Let the one who thinks he stands secure take great heed, lest he fall. The murmuring against their apostolic teachers, the longing to go so far as they could in indulgence without committing actual sin, were gravely significant indications in the Corinthian Church. When we feel ourselves beginning to dislike those who warn us against sin, and when we find ourselves measuring with minute casuistry what is the smallest distance that we can place between ourselves and some desired object of indulgence without actually sinning, then let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.