1 Corinthians 10:7
Nor 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.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
8Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them did, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:11But as it is, I wrote to you not to keep company, if any one called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one not even to eat.
1 Corinthians 8:7But there is not in all men this knowledge; for some, with a consciousness till now of the idol, eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, be not children in your understandings; but in malice be as children, but in your understandings be men.
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 →