1Cor 10:6 Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:6

6: These events happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did

And don't forget the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with sexual immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire and are a warning of the eternal fire that will punish all who are evil.

Then the foreign rabble who were traveling with the Israelites began to crave the good things of Egypt, and the people of Israel also began to complain. "Oh, for some meat!" they exclaimed.

All these events happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us, who live at the time when this age is drawing to a close.

"I have wiped out many nations, devastating their fortress walls and towers. Their cities are now deserted; their streets are in silent ruin. There are no survivors to even tell what happened.
I thought, `Surely they will have reverence for me now! Surely they will listen to my warnings, so I won't need to strike again.' But no; however much I punish them, they continue their evil practices from dawn till dusk and dusk till dawn."

Let us do our best to enter that place of rest. For anyone who disobeys God, as the people of Israel did, will fall.

Later, he turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into heaps of ashes and swept them off the face of the earth. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people.

And this is a picture of baptism, which now saves you by the power of Jesus Christ's resurrection. Baptism is not a removal of dirt from your body; it is an appeal to God from a clean conscience.

Now the LORD sent a wind that brought quail from the sea and let them fall into the camp and all around it! For many miles in every direction from the camp there were quail flying about three feet above the ground.
So the people went out and caught quail all that day and throughout the night and all the next day, too. No one gathered less than fifty bushels! They spread the quail out all over the camp.
But while they were still eating the meat, the anger of the LORD blazed against the people, and he caused a severe plague to break out among them.
So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah--"the graves of craving"--because they buried the people there who had craved meat from Egypt.

For Christ has entered into heaven itself to appear now before God as our Advocate. He did not go into the earthly place of worship, for that was merely a copy of the real Temple in heaven.

they all died anyway--even though they did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did. What a contrast between Adam and Christ, who was yet to come!

He rained down meat as thick as dust--birds as plentiful as the sands along the seashore!
He caused the birds to fall within their camp and all around their tents.
The people ate their fill. He gave them what they wanted.
But before they finished eating this food they had craved, while the meat was yet in their mouths,
the anger of God rose against them, and he killed their strongest men; he struck down the finest of Israel's young men.

In the wilderness, their desires ran wild, testing God's patience in that dry land.
So he gave them what they asked for, but he sent a plague along with it.

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