1 Corinthians 10:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Num 21:5-6 : 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread. 6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.
  • Exod 17:7 : 7 And he named the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the children of Israel, and because they tested the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
  • Ps 78:18 : 18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their desire.
  • Exod 17:2 : 2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies:
  • Ps 95:9 : 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
  • Heb 3:8-9 : 8 Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of temptation in the wilderness, 9 When your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years. 10 Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They always go astray in their heart; and they have not known My ways. 11 So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.
  • Deut 6:16 : 16 You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
  • Exod 23:20-21 : 20 Behold, I send an angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him and obey his voice; do not provoke him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.
  • Heb 10:28-30 : 28 Anyone who despised Moses' law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will repay, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people.

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    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.

    12Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

    13No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you are able; but with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

    14Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

  • 1 Cor 10:5-8
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    5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

    6Now these things were our examples, so we should not desire evil things, as they also desired.

    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.

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    16You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

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    6And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.

    7Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against you; pray to the LORD, that He take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

    8And the LORD said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that everyone that is bitten, when he looks upon it, shall live.

    9And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

  • Heb 3:8-9
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    8Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

    9When your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

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    13Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, nor does He tempt anyone;

    14But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

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    14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

  • Ps 95:8-9
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    8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

    9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

  • Acts 15:10
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    10Now therefore why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

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    7Jesus said to him, It is written again, You shall not tempt the Lord your God.

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    22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

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    12And Jesus answering said to him, It is said, You shall not tempt the Lord your God.

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    22Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

    23Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

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    16For some, when they heard, did provoke: yet not all who came out of Egypt by Moses.

    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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    7Remember, and do not forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you departed out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

    8Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.

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

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    56Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies:

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    15Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you water out of the rock of flint;

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    22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.

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    11Let us therefore labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.

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    16Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

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    40How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

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    9Not because we do not have the right, but to make ourselves an example for you to follow.

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    1Let us therefore fear, lest, while a promise of entering into his rest remains, any of you should seem to have come short of it.

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    10My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

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    32At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper.

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    31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

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    14As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

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    27And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

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    12Beware, brothers and sisters, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

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    20For they could not bear what was commanded: "And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow."

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    8He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaks an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.