1 Corinthians 10:6
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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5But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.
Cross References
Numbers 11:31Then the Lord sent a wind, driving little birds from the sea, so that they came down on the tents, and all round the tent-circle, about a day's journey on this side and on that, in masses about two cubits high over the face of the earth.
Psalms 106:14They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.
Romans 5:14But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.
Hebrews 4:11Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.
1 Peter 3:21And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;
Jude 1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made 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 →