1 Corinthians 10:6 (DBY)

Passage

But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

Nearby Context

1 Corinthians 10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed [them]: (now the rock was the Christ;)

1 Corinthians 10:5 yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

1 Corinthians 10:6 But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

1 Corinthians 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "things", "happened", "types", "should", "lusters", "after", and "evil". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "things" and "happened", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "yet God was not pleased with the..." into verse 7's "Neither be ye idolaters as some of...", so "things" and "happened" belong inside that flow. In 1 Corinthians context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "things" and "happened" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.