1 Corinthians 10:6 (LSB)

Passage

Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

Nearby Context

1 Corinthians 10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock was Christ.

1 Corinthians 10:5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased. For they were struck down in the wilderness.

1 Corinthians 10:6 Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

1 Corinthians 10:7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.”

1 Corinthians 10:8 Nor let us act in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "things", "happened", "examples", "crave", "evil", and "craved". 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 "Nevertheless with most of them God was..." into verse 7's "Do not be 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.