1 Corinthians 10:7

Neither should we serve idols, as some of them served; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to sport.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The 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.

In Context

6Now these things were an example for us, that we should not hanker after evil things as they hankered.

8Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of them committed; and there fell in one day twenty and three thousand.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 5:11But this is what I wrote to you, that ye commingle not, if any one is called a brother, and is a whoremonger, or avaricious, or an idol-worshipper, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, with him who is such, not even to eat bread.

1 Corinthians 8:7But there is not this knowledge in every man; for there are some, who, to the present time, in their conscience, eat it as an offering to idols; and because their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

1 Corinthians 14:20My brethren, be ye not children in your thoughts; but to evil things be ye infants; and in your thoughts 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 →

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