1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Context
This verse from 1 Corinthians Chapter 10 connects to 6 cross-references. Israel's wilderness experiences as warnings: they were baptized into Moses, ate the same spiritual food, drank from the spiritual Rock who was Christ — yet most were struck down. Flee from idolatry. The cup of blessing is participation in Christ's …
Other Translations
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;
Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.
Cross References
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, …
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his …
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who …