1 Corinthians 10:7
Neither become ye idolaters as some of them, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8Nor should we fornicate as some of them fornicated, and three thousand fell in one day.
Cross References
Exodus 32:6And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings. And the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to revel.
Exodus 32:19And it came to pass, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. And Moses' anger grew hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mount.
Deuteronomy 9:16And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against LORD your God. Ye had made you a molten calf. Ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which LORD had commanded you.
1 Corinthians 5:11But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.
1 Corinthians 8:7Nevertheless the knowledge is not in all men, but some, with conscience of the idol until now, eat as sacrificed to idols, and their weak conscience is defiled.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 10:7-15
Admonitions and Warnings. ( a. d. 57.) 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 7 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. 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them… Read the whole commentary →