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


In Context

3 They all ate the same spiritual food

4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert.

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

7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in pagan revelry."

8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did--and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

1st 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:6Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things as they also coveted.

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.