1 Corinthians 10:6

Now these things were warnings for us, in order that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5but with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.

7And do not ye become idolaters, as some of them did; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to sport.”

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Cross References

Psalms 106:14They gave way to appetite in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert;

Romans 5:14Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the manner in which Adam transgressed; who is a type of him who was to come.—

Hebrews 4:11Let us then strive to enter into that rest, that no one may fall, as a like example of disobedience.

1 Peter 3:21which in its antitype, baptism, is now saving you,—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the earnest seeking for a good conscience toward God,—by the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

Jude 1:7even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, in like manner with them giving themselves over to fornication, and going away after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of everlasting 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 →

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