1 Corinthians 10:6

and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

Young's Literal Translation

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 in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,

7Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, 'The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

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Cross References

Numbers 11:31And a spirit hath journeyed from Jehovah, and cutteth off quails from the sea, and leaveth by the camp, as a day's journey here, and as a day's journey there, round about the camp, and about two cubits, on the face of the land.

Psalms 106:14And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

Romans 5:14but the death did reign from Adam till Moses, even upon those not having sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who is coming.

Hebrews 4:11May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

1 Peter 3:21also to which an antitype doth now save us — baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

Jude 1:7as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before — an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

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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