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

4and all of them drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them, and that rock was Christ. 5Yet, God was not pleased with most of them, so their dead bodies were scattered over the desert. These things have become examples for us so that we won’t desire what is evil, as they did. 7So don’t worship false gods as some of them did, as Scripture says, “The people sat down to a feast which turned into an orgy.” 8We shouldn’t sin sexually as some of them did. Twenty-three thousand of them died on one day.

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 10:11These things happened to make them an example for others. These things were written down as a warning for us who are living in the closing days of history.
• Zephaniah 3:6“I will cut off the nations. Their towers will be destroyed. I will demolish their streets. No one will walk through them. Their cities will be completely destroyed. Not a single person will be left. No one will be living there.
• Hebrews 4:11So we must make every effort to enter that place of rest. Then no one will be lost by following the example of those who refused to obey.
• 2 Peter 2:6God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed them by burning them to ashes. He made those cities an example to ungodly people of what is going to happen to them.
• Jude 1:7What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities near them is an example for us of the punishment of eternal fire. The people of these cities suffered the same fate that God’s people and the angels did, because they committed sexual sins and engaged in homosexual activities.
• Romans 5:14Yet, death ruled from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin in the same way Adam did when he disobeyed. Adam is an image of the one who would come.
• Hebrews 9:24Christ didn’t go into a holy place made by human hands. He didn’t go into a model of the real thing. Instead, he went into heaven to appear in God’s presence on our behalf.
• 1 Peter 3:21Baptism, which is like that water, now saves you. Baptism doesn’t save by removing dirt from the body. Rather, baptism is a request to God for a clear conscience. It saves you through Jesus Christ, who came back from death to life.
• Numbers 11:4Some foreigners among the Israelites had a strong craving for ⌞other kinds of⌟ food. Even the Israelites started crying again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!
• Psalms 78:27He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like the sand on the seashore.
• Psalms 106:14They had an unreasonable desire ⌞for food⌟ in the wilderness. In the desert they tested God.

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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• Wicked (People)
• 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