Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was accounted to him,
For as many things as were previously written, were written for our own instruction, that through the patience and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we may have hope.
Now all these things happened to those people as examples, and they were written for our instruction, to whom the ends of the ages have come.
Now these things became examples for us, in order that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.