1 Corinthians 10:10
New International Version
And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.

New Living Translation
And don’t grumble as some of them did, and then were destroyed by the angel of death.

English Standard Version
nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.

Berean Standard Bible
And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

Berean Literal Bible
Neither are you to grumble, as some of them grumbled, and perished by the Destroyer.

King James Bible
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

New King James Version
nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

New American Standard Bible
Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroyer.

NASB 1995
Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

NASB 1977
Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Legacy Standard Bible
Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Amplified Bible
And do not murmur [in unwarranted discontent], as some of them did—and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Christian Standard Bible
And don’t grumble as some of them did, and were killed by the destroyer.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Nor should we complain as some of them did, and were killed by the destroyer.

American Standard Version
Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

Contemporary English Version
Don't even grumble, as some of them did and were killed by the destroying angel.

English Revised Version
Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Don't complain as some of them did. The angel of death destroyed them.

Good News Translation
We must not complain, as some of them did--and they were destroyed by the Angel of Death.

International Standard Version
You must stop complaining, as some of them were doing, and were annihilated by the destroyer.

Majority Standard Bible
And do not complain, as also some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

NET Bible
And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

New Heart English Bible
Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

Webster's Bible Translation
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Weymouth New Testament
And do not be discontented, as some of them were, and they were destroyed by the Destroyer.

World English Bible
Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
neither murmur, as also some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

Berean Literal Bible
Neither are you to grumble, as some of them grumbled, and perished by the Destroyer.

Young's Literal Translation
neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.

Smith's Literal Translation
Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither do you murmur: as some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And you should not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so they perished by the destroyer.

New American Bible
Do not grumble as some of them did, and suffered death by the destroyer.

New Revised Standard Version
And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Neither should you murmur, as some of them murmured; for they were destroyed by the hand of the destroyer.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Neither should we complain as some of them complained and they were destroyed by the destroyer.
NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
Nor do you murmur, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Godbey New Testament
Neither murmur, as some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Haweis New Testament
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

Mace New Testament
neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were slain by the destroying angel.

Weymouth New Testament
And do not be discontented, as some of them were, and they were destroyed by the Destroyer.

Worrell New Testament
Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

Worsley New Testament
as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Warnings from Israel's Past
9We 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. 11Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.…

Cross References
Numbers 14:2-37
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! / Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” / So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.” ...

Numbers 16:41-50
The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!” / But when the congregation gathered against them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the Tent of Meeting, and suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared. / Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the Tent of Meeting, ...

Exodus 16:2-12
And there in the desert the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. / “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!” / Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions. ...

Exodus 17:2-7
So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?” / But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?” / Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!” ...

Philippians 2:14
Do everything without complaining or arguing,

Jude 1:16
These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.

Hebrews 3:7-11
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, / do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, / where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. ...

Hebrews 3:15-19
As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.” / For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? / And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? ...

Hebrews 4:1-11
Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. / For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it. / Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world. ...

Psalm 106:25-27
They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD. / So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness, / to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

Numbers 21:4-9
Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey / and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!” / So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died. ...

Deuteronomy 1:27-35
You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated. / Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’” / So I said to you: “Do not be terrified or afraid of them! ...

Psalm 78:17-22
But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High. / They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved. / They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness? ...

Psalm 78:40-42
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert! / Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel. / They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

Psalm 95:8-11
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness, / where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work. / For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.” ...


Treasury of Scripture

Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

murmur.

Exodus 15:24
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

Exodus 16:2-9
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: …

Exodus 17:2,3
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? …

were.

Numbers 14:37
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

Numbers 16:46-49
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun…

destroyer.

Exodus 12:23
For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.

2 Samuel 24:16
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:15
And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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1 Corinthians 10
1. The sacraments of the Jews are types of ours;
7. and their punishments,
11. examples for us.
13. We must flee from idolatry.
21. We must not make the Lord's table the table of demons;
24. and in all things we must have regard for our brothers.














And do not complain
The Greek word for "complain" here is "γογγύζω" (gongyzō), which means to murmur or grumble. This term is often used in the context of expressing dissatisfaction or discontent, particularly against God or His appointed leaders. In the historical context of the Israelites, complaining was a recurrent issue during their wilderness journey, reflecting a lack of faith and trust in God's provision and plan. From a conservative Christian perspective, this admonition serves as a timeless reminder to maintain a heart of gratitude and trust in God's sovereignty, even when circumstances are challenging.

as some of them did
This phrase refers to the Israelites during their exodus from Egypt. The historical context is crucial here, as it points back to specific instances recorded in the Old Testament, such as in Numbers 14:2 and Numbers 16:41, where the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron. These accounts serve as cautionary tales for believers, illustrating the consequences of a rebellious spirit. The apostle Paul uses these examples to warn the Corinthian church—and by extension, all Christians—against repeating the same mistakes of disobedience and lack of faith.

and were killed
The phrase "were killed" underscores the severity of the consequences that befell those who complained. In the Old Testament, God's judgment on the Israelites' grumbling was often swift and severe, serving as a divine response to their lack of faith and rebellion. This serves as a sobering reminder of the seriousness with which God views sin, particularly the sin of unbelief and rebellion against His will. For the conservative Christian, it emphasizes the importance of obedience and reverence towards God.

by the destroying angel
The "destroying angel" is a reference to the divine agent of God's judgment. In the Old Testament, such an angel is mentioned in various contexts, such as the Passover in Exodus 12:23 and the plague in 2 Samuel 24:16. This imagery conveys the reality of divine justice and the seriousness of sin. From a theological standpoint, it highlights God's holiness and the inevitable consequences of sin. For believers, it serves as a call to repentance and a reminder of the grace available through Jesus Christ, who delivers us from the ultimate judgment of sin.

(10) Neither murmur ye.--The reference here is to Numbers 16:41-47, and the historical event alluded to--viz., the murmuring of the Israelites against their God-given leaders, Moses and Aaron--is analogous to the murmuring of the Corinthians against their Apostle, St. Paul. It is noticeable that St. Paul attributes the death of the people to the Destroyer--i.e., God's messenger sent to destroy--while in Numbers they are said to have perished by the "plague." Every pestilence that swept over nations to purify them was a messenger from God. Thus in Psalm 78:50 God is said to give "their life over to the pestilence," which in Exodus 12:23 is spoken of as "the destroyer."

Verse 10. - Neither murmur ye (Numbers 14:2, 29; Numbers 16:41, 49). The Corinthians were at this time murmuring against their teacher and apostle. Of the destroyer. All plagues and similar great catastrophes, as well as all individual deaths, were believed by the Jews to be the work of an angel whom they called Sammael (see Exodus 12:23; 2 Samuel 24:16; Job 33:22; 2 Macc. 15:22). In the retribution narrated in Numbers 16:41, etc., fourteen thousand seven hundred perished.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
And do not complain,
γογγύζετε (gongyzete)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1111: To whisper, murmur, grumble (generally of smoldering discontent). Of uncertain derivation; to grumble.

as
καθάπερ (kathaper)
Adverb
Strong's 2509: Even as, just as. From katha and per; exactly as.

some
τινὲς (tines)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5100: Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object.

of them
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

[did],
ἐγόγγυσαν (egongysan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1111: To whisper, murmur, grumble (generally of smoldering discontent). Of uncertain derivation; to grumble.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

were killed
ἀπώλοντο (apōlonto)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 622: From apo and the base of olethros; to destroy fully, literally or figuratively.

by
ὑπὸ (hypo)
Preposition
Strong's 5259: A primary preposition; under, i.e. of place, or with verbs; of place (underneath) or where (below) or time (when).

the
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

destroying angel.
ὀλοθρευτοῦ (olothreutou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3644: A destroyer. From olothreuo; a ruiner, i.e., a venomous serpent.


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