1 Corinthians 10:7 “Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The peop…”

1 Corinthians 10:7

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

World English Bible

Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

American Standard Version

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Geneva Bible 1599

Neither bee ye idolaters as were some of them, as it is written, The people sate downe to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play.

Darby Translation

Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Young's Literal Translation

Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, 'The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

Bible in Basic English

Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

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Cross references

“be”

1 Corinthians 6:9 Deuteronomy 9:12 Deuteronomy 9:16–21 1 Corinthians 5:11 1 John 5:21 1 Corinthians 14:20–22

1 Corinthians 6:9 · BSB

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

Deuteronomy 9:12 · BSB

And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have…

Deuteronomy 9:16–21 · BSB

And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

1 Corinthians 5:11 · BSB

But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

1 John 5:21 · BSB

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

1 Corinthians 14:20–22 · BSB

Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

“The people”

Exodus 32:6–8 Exodus 32:17 Exodus 32:19

Exodus 32:6–8 · BSB

So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.

Exodus 32:17 · BSB

When Joshua heard the sound of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “The sound of war is in the camp.”

Exodus 32:19 · BSB

As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.

Also

1 Corinthians 10:14 Exodus 32:4

1 Corinthians 10:14 · BSB

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Exodus 32:4 · BSB

He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

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