◄ 1 Corinthians 10:7 ►
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Good News Translation
nor to worship idols, as some of them did. As the scripture says, "The people sat down to a feast which turned into an orgy of drinking and sex."

New Revised Standard Version
Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.”

Contemporary English Version
They worshiped idols, just as the Scriptures say, "The people sat down to eat and drink. Then they got up to dance around." So don't worship idols.

New American Bible
And do not become idolaters, as some of them did, as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

be.

1 Corinthians 14:20-22 Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect. . . .

1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.

1 Corinthians 6:9 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

1 Corinthians 8:7 But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this present, with conscience of the idol, eat as a thing sacrificed to an idol: and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Deuteronomy 9:12,16-21 And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy people, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the way that thou hast shewn them, and have made to themselves a molten idol. . . .

Psalm 106:19,20 They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing. . . .

1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

The people.

Exodus 32:6-8,17,19 And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace victims, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play. . . .

Context
Warnings from Israel's Past
…6Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted. 7Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. 8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.…
Cross References
Exodus 32:4
And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 32:6
And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace victims, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.

Exodus 32:19
And when he came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf, and the dances: and being very angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and broke them at the foot of the mount:

Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.

1 Corinthians 5:11
But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.

1 Corinthians 10:14
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols.

1 John 5:21
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

1 Corinthians 10:6
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