1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
1 Corinthians 10:6 in other translations
| BSB | These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did. |
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| WEB | Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. |
| ASV | Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. |
| YLT | and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire. |
| DARBY | But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted. |
| BBE | Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did. |
| Webster | Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. |
What does 1 Corinthians 10:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
Were our examples. Greek, Types, (τυποι;) 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 favour of God, and from heaven.
Lust after evil things. Desire those things which are forbidden, and which would be injurious. They lusted after flesh, and God granted them their desires; and the consequence was a plague, and the destruction of multitudes, Nu 11:4,31-34. So Paul infers that the Corinthian Christians should not lust after, or desire the meat offered in sacrifice to idols, lest it should lead them also to sin and ruin.
(1) "examples" "the figures" (&) "lust after" "desire" (b) "they also lusted" Nu 11:4,33,34 (|) "lusted" "desired"
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Corinthians 10:6-14
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
1 Corinthians 10:6 in the original Greek
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Cross references for 1 Corinthians 10:6
- Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
- 1 Corinthians 10:11
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
- 2 Peter 2:6
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
- Hebrews 4:11
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
- Zephaniah 3:6-7
I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.
- Numbers 11:4
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
- Numbers 11:31-34
And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague. And he called the name of that place Kibroth–hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
- Psalms 106:14-15
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
- 1 Peter 3:21
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
- Psalms 78:27-31
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, …
- Romans 5:14
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
- Hebrews 9:24
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
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Context
- 1 Corinthians 10:5
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- 1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- 1 Corinthians 10:7
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
1 Corinthians 10:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Empero estas cosas fueron en figura de nosotros, para que no codiciemos cosas malas, como ellos codiciaron. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Or ces choses arrivèrent comme types de ce qui nous concerne, afin que nous ne convoitions pas des choses mauvaises, comme ceux-là aussi ont convoité. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Diese Dinge aber sind als Vorbilder für uns geschehen, daß wir nicht nach bösen Dingen gelüsten, gleichwie auch jene gelüsteten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Hæc autem in figura facta sunt nostri, ut non simus concupiscentes malorum, sicut et illi concupierunt. |