Verse 9

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.