6Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things as they also coveted.


In Context

3 And did all eat the same spiritual food,

4 And all drank the same spiritual drink; (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.)

5 But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

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

7 Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

1 Corinthians 10:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:6But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:6and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.