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  • 1 Corinthians 10:9
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 9 Neither let us put Jehovah* to the test,+ as some of them put him to the test, only to perish by the serpents.+

  • 1 Corinthians 10:9
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 9 μηδὲ Neither ἐκπειράζωμεν may we be testing out τὸν the κύριον, Lord, καθώς according as τινες some αὐτῶν of them ἐπείρασαν, tested, καὶ and ὑπὸ by τῶν the ὄφεων serpents ἀπώλλυντο. they were destroying selves.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:9
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 9 Neither let us put Jehovah*+ to the test, as some of them put [him] to the test,+ only to perish by the serpents.+

  • 1 Corinthians 10:9
    The Bible in Living English
    • 9* And let us not put the Lord to a test, as some of them tested him and perished by the snakes.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:9
    American Standard Version
    • 9 Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:9
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 9 Neither let us be putting the Lord to the test As some of them put him to the test, And by the serpents were perishing;

  • 1 Corinthians 10:9
    King James Version
    • 9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

  • 1 Corinthians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 10:9 w10 11/15 27; w01 6/15 17; w95 3/1 17

  • 1 Corinthians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 10:9 w74 63; kj 237; w51 501

  • 1 Corinthians
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 10:9

      The Watchtower,

      11/15/2010, p. 27

      6/15/2001, p. 17

      3/1/1995, p. 17

  • 1 Corinthians Study Notes—Chapter 10
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 10:9

      Neither let us put Jehovah to the test: Paul apparently had in mind different times when the Israelites put Jehovah to the test in the wilderness, such as on the occasions mentioned at Ex 16:2, 3; 17:2, 3, 7; and Nu 14:22. Paul alludes to a specific time in the second part of this verse by saying as some of them put him to the test, only to perish by the serpents. This event is described at Nu 21:5, 6, where the record says that “the people kept speaking against God and Moses” and that “Jehovah sent poisonous serpents among the people.” Paul may also be alluding to Ps 78:18, where the psalmist says that the Israelites “challenged [lit., “tested”] God in their heart.”​—See App. C3 introduction; 1Co 10:9.

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