1 Corinthians 10:6
Good News Translation
Now, all of this is an example for us, to warn us not to desire evil things, as they did,

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

Contemporary English Version
What happened to them is a warning to keep us from wanting to do the same evil things.

New American Bible
These things happened as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil things, as they did.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

these.

1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Zephaniah 3:6,7 I have destroyed the nations, and their towers are beaten down: I have made their ways desert, so that there is none that passeth by: their cities are desolate, there is not a man remaining, nor any inhabitant. . . .

Hebrews 4:11 Let us hasten therefore to enter into that rest: lest any man fall into the same example of unbelief.

2 Peter 2:6 And reducing the cities of the Sodomites and of the Gomorrhites into ashes, condemned them to be overthrown, making them an example to those that should after act wickedly,

Jude 1:7 As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

examples.

Romans 5:14 But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over them also who have not sinned, after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come.

Hebrews 9:24 For Jesus is not entered into the Holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into Heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.

1 Peter 3:21 Whereunto baptism, being of the like form, now saveth you also: not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but, the examination of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

lust.

Numbers 11:4,31-34 For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat? . . .

Psalm 78:27-31 And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. . . .

Psalm 106:14,15 And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water. . . .

Context
Warnings from Israel's Past
5But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert. 6Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted. 7Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.…
Cross References
Numbers 11:4
For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?

Numbers 11:34
And that place was called, The graves of lust: for there they buried the people that had lusted. And departing from the graves of lust, they came unto Haseroth, and abode there.

Psalm 106:14
And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

1 Corinthians 10:11
Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

1 Corinthians 10:5
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