1 Corinthians 10:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Now these things are examples (warnings and admonitions) for us not to desire or crave or covet or lust after evil and carnal things as they did. [Num. 11:4, 34.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

These things were examples for us, so we won’t crave evil things like they did.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Now these things were done as an example for us, so that we might not desire evil things, just as they desired.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things as they also coveted.

1 Corinthians 10:6 Cross References

Numbers 11:4

The camp followers with them had a strong craving, and the Israelites also wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

Romans 5:14

Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam, who is a pattern of the one who was to come.

1 Corinthians 10:11

These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Hebrews 4:11

Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall through such disobedience as theirs.

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

1 Peter 3:21

And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

2 Peter 2:6

and if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to destruction and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;

Jude 1:7

Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.