Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

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Bible References

These

1 Corinthians 10:11
Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written down for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
Hebrews 4:11
Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience.
2 Peter 2:6
and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly thereafter;
Jude 1:7
just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in strange flesh, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

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Romans 5:14
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
Hebrews 9:24
For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.
1 Peter 3:21
And corresponding to that, baptism now saves younot the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good consciencethrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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Romans 4:23
But the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written not for his sake alone,