1 Corinthians 10:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.”
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“We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Corinthians 10:8 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 25:1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
- Psalms 106:29So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- 1 Corinthians 6:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
- Revelation 2:14But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
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