1 Corinthians 10:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.”
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“These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Corinthians 10:6 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 11:4Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
- Numbers 11:31Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp.
- Psalms 78:27He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
- Psalms 106:14They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
- Zephaniah 3:6“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.
- Romans 5:14Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.
- 1 Corinthians 10:11Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
- Hebrews 4:11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
- Hebrews 9:24For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.
- 1 Peter 3:21And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
- 2 Peter 2:6if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
- Jude 1:7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
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