1 Corinthians 10:6
New International Version
Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.

New Living Translation
These things happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did,

English Standard Version
Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.

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

Berean Literal Bible
Now these things have become types to us, for us not to be desirers of evil things, as they also desired.

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

New King James Version
Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.

New American Standard Bible
Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they indeed craved them.

NASB 1995
Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

NASB 1977
Now these things happened as examples for us, that we should not crave evil things, as they also craved.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

Amplified Bible
Now these things [the warnings and admonitions] took place as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did.

Christian Standard Bible
Now these things took place as examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now these things became examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But these things are an example for us that we would not be lusting for evil, just as they lusted.

Contemporary English Version
What happened to them is a warning to keep us from wanting to do the same evil things.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things as they also coveted.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
These things have become examples for us so that we won't desire what is evil, as they did.

Good News Translation
Now, all of this is an example for us, to warn us not to desire evil things, as they did,

International Standard Version
Now their experiences serve as examples for us so that we won't set our hearts on evil as they did.

Literal Standard Version
and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these desired.

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

New American Bible
These things happened as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil things, as they did.

NET Bible
These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

New Revised Standard Version
Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did.

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

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

Weymouth New Testament
And in this they became a warning to us, to teach us not to be eager, as they were eager, in pursuit of what is evil.

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

Young's Literal Translation
and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Warnings from Israel's Past
5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness. 6 These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did. 7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”…

Cross References
Numbers 11:4
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, "Who will feed us meat?

Numbers 11:34
So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

Psalm 106:14
They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

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.


Treasury of Scripture

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

these.

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.

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…

Hebrews 4:11
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

examples.

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:

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:

lust.

Numbers 11:4,31-34
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? …

Psalm 78:27-31
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: …

Psalm 106:14,15
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert…

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1 Corinthians 10
1. The sacraments of the Jews are types of ours;
7. and their punishments,
11. examples for us.
13. We must flee from idolatry.
21. We must not make the Lord's table the table of demons;
24. and in all things we must have regard for our brothers.














(6) Now these things were our examples.--Better, Now these things were types of us. "Now" introduces the contrast between the physical Israel and the spiritual Israel, between the physical death which befell the majority of the former, and the spiritual death which, if privileges be neglected or abused, must befall the latter.

To the intent.--St. Paul regards everything that has happened in history as having a divine purpose of blessing for others. All this material suffering on their part will not be in vain if it teaches us the spiritual lesson which God would have us learn from it.

We should not lust after evil things.--The Apostle now sets forth the causes with which the majority of the Israelities neutralised the great advantages in which all had shared. The lusting after evil things must be taken as applying to their general conduct (evidenced especially in the circumstances mentioned in Numbers 11:4; Numbers 11:18). "As they also" directly connects the sins which the Corinthians were in danger of with the sins which led to the overthrow of the Israelites. The idolatry and eating and drinking and committing fornication all refer to kinds of sin which the Corinthians were liable to commit if they did not keep themselves perfectly distinct from the heathen. (See 1Corinthians 6:12.)

Verse 6. - These things were our examples. If this rendering be adopted, perhaps "examples" is the best equivalent of the original tupoi, as in Philippians 3:17, "Walk so as ye have us for an example (tupelo)." It may, however, mean "types," i.e. foreshadowing symbols, as in Romans 5:14, where Adam is the "figure" (tupos) of Christ. But, in spite of Alford's decisive rejection of it, the rendering, "Now in these things they proved to be figures of us," is at least equally probable. To the intent. Of course, the events had their own immediate instruction, but the example which they involved was the ulterior purpose of their being so ordained by the providence of God. As they also lusted. (For quails, Numbers 11:4, 33; and see Psalm 95:7-11.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
These things
Ταῦτα (Tauta)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

took place
ἐγενήθησαν (egenēthēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

as examples
τύποι (typoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5179: From tupto; a die, i.e. a stamp or scar; by analogy, a shape, i.e. A statue, style or resemblance; specially, a sampler, i.e. A model or instance.

to keep
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

us
ἡμᾶς (hēmas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

from craving
ἐπιθυμητὰς (epithymētas)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1938: An eager desirer of. From epithumeo; a craver.

evil things
κακῶν (kakōn)
Adjective - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 2556: Bad, evil, in the widest sense. Apparently a primary word; worthless, i.e. depraved, or injurious.

as
καθὼς (kathōs)
Adverb
Strong's 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that.

they
κἀκεῖνοι (kakeinoi)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2548: And he, she, it, and that. From kai and ekeinos; likewise that.

[did].
ἐπεθύμησαν (epethymēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1937: To long for, covet, lust after, set the heart upon. From epi and thumos; to set the heart upon, i.e. Long for.


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