1 Corinthians 10:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now these things were our examples, so we should not desire evil things, as they also desired.

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  • Num 11:4 : 4 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell to lusting, and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us meat to eat?
  • 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 Now all these things happened to them as examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
  • Heb 4:11 : 11 Let us therefore labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ has not entered into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
  • 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but the pledge of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
  • 2 Pet 2:6 : 6 And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemning them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
  • Num 11:31-34 : 31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits high upon the face of the earth. 32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails; he that gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all abroad for themselves all around the camp. 33 And while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague. 34 And he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted.
  • Ps 78:27-31 : 27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: 28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, all around their habitations. 29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; 30 They were not estranged from their desire. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, 31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and struck down the chosen men of Israel.
  • Ps 106:14-15 : 14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. 15 And he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
  • Zeph 3:6-7 : 6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passes by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, no inhabitant. 7 I said, Surely you will fear me, you will receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, however I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their deeds.
  • Rom 5:14 : 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who was to come.

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    7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

    8Do not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

    9Do not tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by snakes.

    10Do not complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

    11Now all these things happened to them as examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

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    4And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank from that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

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    2That he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

    3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in sensuality, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

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    5Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God:

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    7As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

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    17But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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    5I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

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    7And do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.

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    18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their desire.

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    34And he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted.

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    8Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

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