1 Corinthians 10:8

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“We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.”

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BSBPD

“We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Corinthians 10:8 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 25:1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
  2. Psalms 106:29So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
  3. 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,
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

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