Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- BSB These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
- NKJV Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
- NASB Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they indeed craved them.
- NLT These things happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did,
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Quick answer
These events happened as examples to warn us not to crave evil things as Israel did. Their failures are written to keep us from the same sins.
Overview
Paul states the purpose of his historical review: Israel's wilderness sins serve as warning examples for the church. Their craving after evil—idolatry, immorality, grumbling (detailed in vv. 7-10)—must not be repeated by those who now belong to Christ. This shows how the Old Testament instructs believers (cf. Rom 15:4), and it reinforces the call to vigilant, self-controlled faith lest, like Israel, the privileged fall into judgment.
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- Jude 1:7Even 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.
- 2 Pet 2:6And 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;
- 1 Cor 10:11Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
- Heb 4:11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
- Zeph 3:6–7I 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.
- Num 11:4And 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?
- Num 11:31–34And 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.
- Ps 106:14–15But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
- 1 Pet 3:21The 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:
- Ps 78:27–31He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
- Rom 5:14Nevertheless 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.
- Heb 9:24For 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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