1 Corinthians 10:6 “These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil thing…”

1 Corinthians 10:6

These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Nowe these things are our ensamples, to the intent that we should not lust after euil things as they also lusted.

Darby Translation

But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

Young's Literal Translation

and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

Bible in Basic English

Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

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Cross references

“these”

Jude 1:7 1 Corinthians 10:11 2 Peter 2:6 Hebrews 4:11 Zephaniah 3:6 Zephaniah 3:7

Jude 1:7 · BSB

In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

1 Corinthians 10:11 · BSB

Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

2 Peter 2:6 · BSB

if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

Hebrews 4:11 · BSB

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

Zephaniah 3:6 · BSB

“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.

Zephaniah 3:7 · BSB

I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.

“examples”

1 Peter 3:21 Romans 5:14 Hebrews 9:24

1 Peter 3:21 · BSB

And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Romans 5:14 · BSB

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

Hebrews 9:24 · BSB

For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.

“lust”

Numbers 11:4 Numbers 11:31–34 Psalm 78:27–31 Psalm 106:14 Psalm 106:15

Numbers 11:4 · BSB

Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?

Numbers 11:31–34 · BSB

Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp.

Psalm 78:27–31 · BSB

He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

Psalm 106:14 · BSB

They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

Psalm 106:15 · BSB

So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”

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