All these things happened to them as examples for others, and they were written down as a warning for us. For we live at a time when the end is about to come.

The LORD says, "I have wiped out whole nations; I have destroyed their cities and left their walls and towers in ruins. The cities are deserted; the streets are empty---no one is left.

I thought that then my people would have reverence for me and accept my discipline, that they would never forget the lesson I taught them. But soon they were behaving as badly as ever.

Let us, then, do our best to receive that rest, so that no one of us will fail as they did because of their lack of faith.

God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, destroying them with fire, and made them an example of what will happen to the godless.

Remember Sodom and Gomorrah, and the nearby towns, whose people acted as those angels did and indulged in sexual immorality and perversion: they suffer the punishment of eternal fire as a plain warning to all.

But from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, death ruled over all human beings, even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam did when he disobeyed God's command. Adam was a figure of the one who was to come.

For Christ did not go into a Holy Place made by human hands, which was a copy of the real one. He went into heaven itself, where he now appears on our behalf in the presence of God.

which was a symbol pointing to baptism, which now saves you. It is not the washing off of bodily dirt, but the promise made to God from a good conscience. It saves you through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

There were foreigners traveling with the Israelites. They had a strong craving for meat, and even the Israelites themselves began to complain: "If only we could have some meat!

Suddenly the LORD sent a wind that brought quails from the sea, flying three feet above the ground. They settled on the camp and all around it for miles and miles in every direction.

While there was still plenty of meat for them to eat, the LORD became angry with the people and caused an epidemic to break out among them.

and to his people he sent down birds, as many as the grains of sand on the shore;

So the people ate and were satisfied; God gave them what they wanted.

when God became angry with them and killed their strongest men, the best young men of Israel.

They were filled with craving in the desert and put God to the test;

so he gave them what they asked for, but also sent a terrible disease among them.