1 Corinthians 10:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁸ Neither should we commit sexual immorality as some of them did, [with] 23,000 people falling dead in one day. [Note: Num. 25:9 mentions 24,000 people slain, but that number could have included the additional people slain by the judges. See Num. 25:5].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ We must not gratify evil desire and indulge in immorality as some of them did–and twenty-three thousand [suddenly] fell dead in a single day! [Num. 25:1-18.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Common English Bible

⁸ Let’s not practice sexual immorality, like some of them did, and twenty-three thousand died in one day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And let us not commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and so twenty-three thousand fell on one day.

1 Corinthians 10:8 Cross References

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you, every person who divorces his wife makes her become sexually unfaithful to him [i.e., since she will probably marry someone else], unless the reason for the divorce is that she had [already] become sexually unfaithful to him. And whoever marries a woman who has been divorced commits sexual sin with her [i.e., because she is still rightfully married to her first husband].

1 Corinthians 6:18

Stay away from [any involvement in] sexual immorality. Every sin a person commits is outside [the realm] of his body; but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. [Note: Possibly this means that sex, because it requires the deepest and most complete commitment of human involvement, becomes a unique sin when its true purpose and expression are violated].

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or, do you not know that evil people will not possess God’s kingdom? Do not be misled: neither will sexually immoral people, nor idolaters, nor those who are sexually unfaithful to their mates, nor homosexual perverts. [Note: The Greek uses two words here, denoting both the passive and active partners in male homosexual acts].

Revelation 2:14

“But I have a few things against you because you have people there [in the church] who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites, [causing them] to eat food sacrificed to idols and to be sexually immoral [See Num. 23-24].