1 Corinthians 10:5
“But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were ouerthrowen in the wildernesse.”
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1 Corinthians 10:5 Context
3And did all eat the same spirituall meat: 4And did all drinke the same spirituall drinke: (for they dranke of that spirituall Rocke that followed them: and that Rocke was Christ) 5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were ouerthrowen in the wildernesse. 6Now these things were our examples, to the intent wee should not lust after euil things, as they also lusted. 7Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them, as it is written, The people sate downe to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play.
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Other Translations for 1 Corinthians 10:5
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- King James Version
Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- American Standard Version (1901)
But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.
- Basic English Bible
yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.
- Darby Bible
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- Webster's Bible
But with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were laid low in the Desert.
- Weymouth Bible
However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- World English Bible
But not in ful manye of hem it was wel pleasaunt to God; for whi thei weren cast doun in desert.
- Wycliffe Bible
but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 Corinthians 10:5
10:5 Yet - Although they had so many tokens of the divine presence. They were overthrown - With the most terrible marks of his displeasure.
People's Bible Notes for 1 Corinthians 10:5
1Co 10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased. "All" were baptized, "all" were fed, "all" did drink, but notwithstanding God had done so much for them "all" without exception, many were overthrown in the wilderness. Fell in the wilderness because of their sins (Nu 14:35 26:65); a startling warning to Christians on the journey.