1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
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In Context
5However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Cross References
Numbers 11:31A wind from the LORD went out 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, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
Psalms 106:14but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
Romans 5:14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
Hebrews 4:11Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
1 Peter 3:21This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Jude 1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering 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 →