NEW TESTAMENT

1 Corinthians 10:6

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Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.

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Verse 6. In a figure of us. That is, this was done and written to teach us, what we may expect, if we imitate the murmurs, infidelities, ingratitude, and disobedience of the Hebrew people. Unless we renounce our irregular desires, unless we mortify our passions, baptism and communion will prove our greater condemnation. The greatest graces are but subjects of alarm, unless our life correspond with them.

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