Bible verse
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
1 Corinthians 10:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 10.
1 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
3 They all ate the same spiritual food
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 to 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.
9 We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
KJV
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
ASV
Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
ERV
Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
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