1 Corinthians 10:6

1 Corinthians 10:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
• New International Version (NIV)Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.

Context of 1 Corinthians 10:6

4All of them drank the same spiritual drink. They drank water from the spiritual rock that went with them. Christ was that rock. 5They all received the same help from God, but most of them did not please God. God caused most of them to die in the wilderness. We must learn from those things that happened to our ancestors. We must not want to do very bad things, like they did. 7Do not worship idols, as some of them did. The Bible says: ‘The people sat down to eat and to drink. After that, they got up from their meal and they danced.’ 8Nor must we ever have sex in wrong ways. Some of our ancestors did that, and 23,000 of them died in one day as a result.

1 Corinthians 10:6 word by word

ταῦτα δὲ τύποι ἡμῶν ἐγενήθησαν εἰς τὸ μὴ εἶναι ἡμᾶς ἐπιθυμητὰς κακῶν καθὼς κἀκεῖνοι ἐπεθύμησαν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Nowδέde · thenG1161
• these thingsοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• wereγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• ourἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• examplesτύποςtupos · mark/exampleG5179
• to the intentεἰςeis · towardG1519
• shouldεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• notμήmē · notG3361
• lust afterἐπιθυμητήςepithumētēs · one who desiresG1938
• evil thingsκακόςkakos · evil/harm: evilG2556
• asκαθώςkathōs · as/just asG2531
• they alsoκἀκεῖνοςkakeinos · and that oneG2548
• lustedἐπιθυμέωepithumeō · to long forG1937

Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 10:6

• 1 Corinthians 10:11All these things happened to our ancestors so that we would learn from them. They are written in the Bible to teach us important lessons. We are people who live at a time when all things will become complete.
• Zephaniah 3:6‘I have destroyed nations,’ the Lord says. ‘There is nobody in their strong towers now. I have made their streets empty, so no people are there. I have destroyed their cities. So nobody lives in them now.
• Hebrews 4:11So we must do everything possible to arrive in God's special place of rest. God's people in the wilderness did not obey him. We must not be like them. If we do not obey God, we also will fail to arrive in that place.
• 2 Peter 2:6Later, God punished the people who lived in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Because they did bad things, God decided to destroy them. He burned those cities completely, so that only ashes remained. When God did that, he showed what will happen to all people who refuse to obey him.
• Jude 1:7Also, remember what happened to the cities called Sodom and Gomorrah, and the other cities that were near them. Like those bad angels, the people who lived in those places were also doing evil things. They were having sex with people who were not their husbands or their wives. They liked to have sex in other ways that are not right. God destroyed their cities. He has punished them with fire that never stops burning. That is an example of what will happen to wicked people like them.
• Romans 5:14But still death ruled all people, from the time when Adam lived until the time when Moses lived. Everyone died, even those who did not fail in the same way that Adam failed. Adam shows us something about God's special Messiah who would come at a future time.
• Hebrews 9:24Christ did not go into a holy place that people had made on earth. A place like that is only a picture of the true place in heaven. No, Christ went into heaven itself, where God is. Now he is there with God and he speaks to God on our behalf.
• 1 Peter 3:21That shows how God now saves you. It is like a picture of baptism. The water of baptism does not wash dirt from a person's body. Instead, it shows that a person has decided to obey God. He is choosing to do what is right. That saves you, because Jesus Christ became alive again after his death.
• Numbers 11:4Some foreign people were travelling with the Israelites. Those people wanted very much to eat better food. So the Israelites wept again. They said, ‘We want meat to eat!
• Psalms 78:27He caused meat to pour down on them, like dust from the sky. The birds covered all the ground like sand on the shore of the sea.
• Psalms 106:14In the wilderness they wanted better food. They tested God to see what he would do.

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 10:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6These 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 Numbers 11:4, etc.: And the mixed multitude fell a lusting, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? Into the same spirit the Corinthians had most evidently…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Now these things - The judgments inflicted on them by God for their sins. Were our examples - Greek: “types” ( ́ tupoi). Margin, “figures.” They were not designed to be types of us, but they are to be held up as furnishing an admonition to us, or a warning that we do not sin in the same way. The same God directs our affairs that ordered theirs; and if we sin as they did, we also must expect to be punished, and excluded from the favor of God, and from…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-14Verses 6-14 Carnal desires gain strength by indulgence, therefore should be checked in their first rise. Let us fear the sins of Israel, if we would shun their plagues. And it is but just to fear, that such as tempt Christ, will be left by him in the power of the old serpent. Murmuring against God's disposals and commands, greatly provokes him. Nothing in Scripture is written in vain; and it is our wisdom and duty to learn from it. Others have fallen, and…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6evil things: see Numbers 11:4–6, 34.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. were--Greek, "came to pass as." our examples--samples to us of what will befall us, if we also with all our privileges walk carelessly. lust--the fountain of all the four other offenses enumerated, and therefore put first (Jas 1:14, 15; compare Psa 106:14). 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…Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Corinthians 10:6

• Backsliders
• Example
• Judgments
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• Worldliness

In the dictionaries

• Admonition
• Lust
• Meekness
• Type
• Corinthians, First Epistle to the
• Covet
• Evil Thing
• Example
• Inspiration
• Intend; Intent

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings