1 Corinthians 10:7
Nor be idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6Now these things are examples for us, so we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted.
8Let us not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:11But now I write to you not to keep company with any man who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an swindler; with such a one do not even eat.
1 Corinthians 8:7Yet, not every man has this knowledge: for some are still accustomed to idols, and eat a thing as if it were really offered to an idol; and because their conscience is weak it is defiled.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, do not be children in understanding: in evil be infants, but in understanding 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 →