Bible verse
These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
1 Corinthians 10:6 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 10.
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.
10 And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
KJV
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
ASV
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
ERV
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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