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
Those things continued to befall them as warnings to others, and they were written down for the purpose of instructing us, in whose lives the climax of the ages has been reached.
Hebrews 4:11
So let us do our best to be admitted to that rest, so that not one of us may fail through the same sort of disobedience.
2 Peter 2:6
and if He condemned, by burning them to ashes, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, making them an example to godless people of what was coming to them,
Jude 1:7
just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns which like them indulged in grossest immorality and unnatural vice, stand as a perpetual warning, in suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

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Romans 5:14
And yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the way Adam had, against a positive command. For Adam was a figure of Him who was to come.
Hebrews 9:24
For it was not a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, that Christ entered, but it was into heaven itself that He went, in order now to appear for us in the very presence of God.
1 Peter 3:21
Baptism, which corresponds to this figure, now saves you, too -- I do not mean the mere removal of physical stains, but the craving for a clear conscience toward God -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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Romans 4:23
It was not for his sake alone that it was written, "It was credited to him";