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 water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. 5Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. These things happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did, 7or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say, “The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.” 8And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in 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 them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age.
• Zephaniah 3:6“I have wiped out many nations, devastating their fortress walls and towers. Their streets are now deserted; their cities lie in silent ruin. There are no survivors— none at all.
• Hebrews 4:11So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.
• 2 Peter 2:6Later, God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and turned them into heaps of ashes. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people.
• Jude 1:7And don’t forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire and serve as a warning of the eternal fire of God’s judgment.
• Romans 5:14Still, everyone died—from the time of Adam to the time of Moses—even those who did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did. Now Adam is a symbol, a representation of Christ, who was yet to come.
• Hebrews 9:24For Christ did not enter into a holy place made with human hands, which was only a copy of the true one in heaven. He entered into heaven itself to appear now before God on our behalf.
• 1 Peter 3:21And that water is a picture of baptism, which now saves you, not by removing dirt from your body, but as a response to God from a clean conscience. It is effective because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
• Numbers 11:4Then the foreign rabble who were traveling with the Israelites began to crave the good things of Egypt. And the people of Israel also began to complain. “Oh, for some meat!” they exclaimed.
• Psalms 78:27He rained down meat as thick as dust— birds as plentiful as the sand on the seashore!
• Psalms 106:14In the wilderness their desires ran wild, testing God’s patience in that dry wasteland.

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
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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