Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 10:8 in context
1 Corinthians 10:5–11
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However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
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Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
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Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”
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Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
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Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
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Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
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Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
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