1 Corinthians 10:6
But these things became our examples, for us not to be men who lust for evil things as those also lusted.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
5However with most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness.
Cross References
Numbers 11:31And there went forth a wind from LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the
Psalms 106:14but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and challenged God in the desert.
Romans 5:14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the coming man.
Hebrews 4:11Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest, so that not any man may fall by the same example of disobedience.
1 Peter 3:21Which counterpart--immersion--now also saves us, not the putting away of filth of flesh, but an appeal of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Jude 1:7As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, the same kind of way with these who indulged in fornication, and who went rear of queer flesh, are set forth an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 10:2-6
Admonitions and Warnings. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. In order… Read the whole commentary →