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


In Context

3 and all ate the same spiritual food;

4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

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

7 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, |The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.|

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

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 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 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.