1 Corinthians 10:6

But, in these things, they became, ensamples for us, to the end we should not be covetous of evil things, even as, they, also coveted;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

5Nevertheless, with the most of them, God, was not well-pleased, for they were strewed along in the desert.

7Neither become ye, idolaters, as some of them,—as it is written—The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to be making sport;

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Cross References

Numbers 11:31Now, a wind, had sprung up, from Yahweh, and cut off quails from the sea, and let them lie over the camp—as it were a days journey here and a days journey there, round about the camp,—and as it were two cubits on the face of the land.

Psalms 106:14But lusted a lust in the desert, and tested GOD in the waste.

Romans 5:14Yet still, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them who had not sinned after the likeness of the transgression of Adam,—who is a type of the Coming One;—

Hebrews 4:11Let us, therefore, give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall into the same example, of obstinacy.

1 Peter 3:21Which [water] in manner corresponding, doth, now, save, you also—even immersion,—not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the request unto God, for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,—

Jude 1:7As, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having in like manner to these given themselves over to fornication, and gone away after other kind of flesh, lie exposed as an example, a penalty of age-abiding fire, undergoing.

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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