^11–12These are all warning markers—danger!—in our history books, written down so that we don’t repeat their mistakes. Our positions in the story are parallel—they at the beginning, we at the end—and we are just as capable of messing it up as they were.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

These things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

NLTNew Living Translation

These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Now these things happened to those people as an example, but are written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

KJV 1900King James Version

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

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