1 Corinthians 10:6 BSB

1 Corinthians 10:6

These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

KJV

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

These things were our examples - The punishments which God inflicted on them furnish us with evidences of what God will inflict upon us, if we sin after the similitude of those transgressors. We should not lust after evil things - It is most evident that the apostle refers here to the history in Num 11:4, etc.: And the mixed multitude fell a lusting, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

The benefits are set down in the same order as by Moses in Exodus; the sins and punishments in a different order; evil desire first, as being the foundation of all; next, idolatry, ver. 7, 14; then fornication, which usually accompanied it, ver. 8; the tempting and murmuring against God, in the following verses.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

A particular case of lust was that after flesh, when they pined for the fish, leeks, &c., of Egypt, which they had left (Nu 11:4, 33, 34). These are included in the "evil things," not that they are so in themselves, but they became so to the Israelites when they lusted after what God withheld, and were discontented with what God provided.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ταῦτα	tauta	These things	G3778 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
τύποι	tupoi	types	G5179 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	to us	G3165 →
ἐγενήθησαν	egenēthēsan	have become	G1096 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
εἶναι	einai	to be	G1511 →
ἡμᾶς	hēmas	us	G3165 →
ἐπιθυμητὰς	epithumētas	desirers	G1938 →
κακῶν	kakōn	of evil things	G2556 →
καθὼς	kathōs	even as	G2531 →
κἀκεῖνοι	kakeinoi	they also	G2532 →G1565 →
ἐπεθύμησαν.	epethumēsan	desired.	G1937 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 10:11
Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
leads to
- Romans 15:4
  For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
Through
Jude 1:7
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 29:23
  All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Romans 1:26–27
  For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
- 2 Peter 2:6
  if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
Through
2 Peter 2:6
if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
leads to
- Jude 1:7
  In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal…
Through
Hebrews 4:11
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
leads to
- Matthew 11:28–30
  Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Luke 13:24
  “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
- Hebrews 3:18
  And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?