1 Corinthians 10:7
5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
6 These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”
8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
9 We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- 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.”
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- And do not become idolaters, as some of them, just as it has been written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.”
- ÅB
- Bli heller ikke avgudsdyrkere, slik som noen av dem, som skrevet er: Folket satte seg ned for å spise og drikke og sto opp for å leke!
- OTB
- Bli ikke avgudsdyrkere, slik noen av dem var; som det står skrevet: "Folket satte seg ned for å spise og drikke, og reiste seg for å feste."
- B1930
- Bli heller ikke avgudsdyrkere, likesom nogen av dem, som skrevet er: Folket satte sig ned for å ete og drikke og stod op for å leke!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 32:6–8
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.
Read in contextPsalms 106:19–20
At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:12
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 made for themselves a molten image.”
Read in context1 Corinthians 6:9
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,
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:14
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:16–21
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.
Read in context1 Corinthians 5:11
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.
Read in contextExodus 32:19
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.
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