1 Corinthians 10:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

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  • Num 21:5-6 : 5 And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us. 6 Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.
  • Exod 17:7 : 7 And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?
  • Ps 78:18 : 18 Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.
  • Exod 17:2 : 2 So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;
  • Ps 95:9 : 9 When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.
  • Heb 3:8-9 : 8 Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land, 9 When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years. 10 So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways; 11 And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.
  • Deut 6:16 : 16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.
  • Exod 23:20-21 : 20 See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you. 21 Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him.
  • Heb 10:28-30 : 28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses: 29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment? 30 For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.

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    10 And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them.

    11 Now these things were done as an example; and were put down in writing for our teaching, on whom the last days have come.

    12 So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.

    13 You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

    14 For this cause, my dear brothers, give no worship to false gods.

  • 1 Cor 10:5-8
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    5 But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.

    6 Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

    7 Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

    8 Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

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    16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.

  • Num 21:6-9
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    6 Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

    7 Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.

    8 And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well.

    9 So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.

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    8 Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

    9 When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

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    13 Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:

    14 But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

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    14 They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

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    8 Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

    9 When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.

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    10 Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?

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    7 Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.

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    22 Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

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    12 And Jesus made answer and said to him, It is said in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.

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    22 Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

    23 They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.

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    16 Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?

    17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

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    7 Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry in the waste land; from the day when you went out of Egypt till you came to this place, you have gone against the orders of the Lord.

    8 Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.

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    5 Now it is my purpose to put you in mind, though you once had knowledge of all these things, of how the Lord, having taken a people safely out of Egypt, later sent destruction on those who had no faith;

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    18 Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

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    56 But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

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    15 Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

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    22 Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry.

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    11 Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

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    16 It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

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    12 My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

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    8 He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.