1 Corinthians 10:6-8

Common English Bible

⁶These things were examples for us, so we won’t crave evil things like they did. ⁷Don’t worship false gods like some of them did, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink and they got up to play.^[a] ⁸Let’s not practice sexual immorality, like some of them did, and twenty-three thousand died in one day.

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1 Corinthians 10:7 Exod 32:6

1 Corinthians 10:6-8

New International Version

⁶Now these things occurred as examples^(A) to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. ⁷Do not be idolaters,^(B) as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”^[a]^(C) ⁸We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.^(D)