1 Corinthians 10:6

New Testament · SCRIPTURE

1 Corinthians 10:6

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

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KJV

King James Version

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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WEB

World English Bible

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.

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ASV

American Standard Version

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

Now these things became examples for us—for us not to be desirers of evil things, as those also desired.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

1 Corinthians 10

⁴ and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

⁵ Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

⁶ These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

⁷ Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”

⁸ 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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