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.

Bible References

These

1 Corinthians 10:11
Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
Zephaniah 3:6
I have cut off nations;
their corner towers are destroyed.
I have laid waste their streets,
with no one to pass through.
Their cities lie devastated,
without a person, without an inhabitant.
Hebrews 4:11
Let us then make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience.
2 Peter 2:6
and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to ruin, making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly;
Jude 1:7
In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them committed sexual immorality and practiced perversions, just as angels did, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Examples

Romans 5:14
Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression. He is a prototype of the Coming One.
Hebrews 9:24
For the Messiah did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that He might now appear in the presence of God for us.
1 Peter 3:21
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the pledge of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Lust

Numbers 11:4
Contemptible people among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites cried again and said, “Who will feed us meat?
Psalm 78:27
He rained meat on them like dust,
and winged birds like the sand of the seas.
Psalm 106:14
They were seized with craving in the wilderness
and tested God in the desert.

General references

Joshua 22:20
Wasn’t Achan son of Zerah unfaithful regarding what was set apart for destruction, bringing wrath on the entire community of Israel? He was not the only one who perished because of his sin.’”
Proverbs 5:14
I am on the verge of complete ruin
before the entire community.”
Ezekiel 20:36
Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
Romans 4:23
Now it was credited to him was not written for Abraham alone,

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