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1 Corinthians 10:8
1 Corinthians 10:8 is verse 8 of 1 Corinthians chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
King James Version
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
World English Bible
Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
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1 Corinthians 10:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”
8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
9 We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
10 And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
1 Corinthians 6:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
Numbers 25:1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
Numbers 25:2who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.
Numbers 25:3So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.
Numbers 25:4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
Numbers 25:5So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”
Numbers 25:6Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 25:7On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,
Numbers 25:8followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,
Numbers 25:9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
Psalms 106:29So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
Revelation 2:14But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.