1 Corinthians 10:6

Now these things were an example for us, that we should not hanker after evil things as they hankered.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 a multitude of them, God was not pleased; for they fell in the wilderness.

7Neither should we serve idols, as some of them served; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to sport.

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Cross References

Romans 5:14Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of the transgression of the command by Adam, who was the type of him that was to come.

Hebrews 4:11Let us, therefore, strive to enter into that rest; lest we fall short, after the manner of them who believed not.

1 Peter 3:21And ye also, by a like figure, are made alive by baptism, (not when ye wash your bodies from filth, but when ye confess God with a pure conscience,) and by the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah;

Jude 1:7As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the surrounding cities, which in like manner followed whoredom and went after strange flesh, are placed beneath everlasting fire, being, doomed to judgment.

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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