KJV King James Version
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
WEB World English Bible
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
ASV American Standard Version
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.
Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 10
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.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be ye idolaters, as [were] some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
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ταῦταG3778 · ohutosthis/he/she/itδὲG1161 · dethenτύποιG5179 · tuposmark/exampleἡμῶνG3165 · memeἐγενήθησανG1096 · ginomaito beεἰςG1519 · eistowardτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoμὴG3361 · mēnotεἶναιG1511 · einaito existἡμᾶςG3165 · memeἐπιθυμητὰςG1938 · epithumētēsone who desiresκακῶνG2556 · kakosevil/harm: evilκαθὼςG2531 · kathōsas/just asκἀκεῖνοιG2532 · kaiandἐπεθύμησαν.G1937 · epithumeōto long for
Cross-references
Jude 1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.1 Corinthians 10:11Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.2 Peter 2:6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned [them] with an overthrow, making [them] an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;Hebrews 4:11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.Zephaniah 3:6-7I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.Numbers 11:4And the mixt multitude that [was] among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?Numbers 11:31-34And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let [them] fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits [high] upon the face of the earth.Psalm 106:14-15But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.1 Peter 3:21The like figure whereunto [even] baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:Psalm 78:27-31He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:Romans 5:14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.Hebrews 9:24For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, [which are] the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
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