10 Bible Verses about Examples, Purpose Of
Most Relevant Verses
And the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha having reduced to ashes, condemned with a catastrophe, a pattern set to them about to act irreligiously;
Therefore we should be earnest to come into that rest, lest any should fall in the same pattern of unbelief.
And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired. Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as has been written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither should we commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand.read more.
Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer. And all those happened types to them; and it was written for our reminding, to whom the ends of the times have arrived.
If therefore, I washed your feet, the Lord and Teacher; ye also ought to wash the feet of one another:
For so once also the holy women, hoping in God, arranged themselves, being subjected to their own husbands:
Take a pattern of affliction, my brethren, and of longsuffering, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord.
For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God. For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps: Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth:
Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type.
And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired.
And all those happened types to them; and it was written for our reminding, to whom the ends of the times have arrived.
