1 Corinthians 10:7

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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  • Exod 32:6-8 : 6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. 7 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: 8 they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 32:17 : 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
  • Exod 32:19 : 19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
  • Deut 9:12 : 12 And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
  • Deut 9:16-21 : 16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God; ye had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you. 17 And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. But Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also. 20 And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
  • Ps 106:19-20 : 19 They made a calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten image. 20 Thus they changed their glory For the likeness of an ox that eateth grass.
  • 1 Cor 5:11 : 11 but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.
  • Exod 32:4 : 4 And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. [
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
  • 1 Cor 10:14 : 14 Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
  • 1 Cor 14:20-22 : 20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men. 21 In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord. 22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying [is for a sign], not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.
  • 1 John 5:21 : 21 [ My] little children, guard yourselves from idols.

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  • 1 Cor 10:3-6
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    3and did all eat the same spiritual food;

    4and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.

    5Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

    6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

  • 1 Cor 10:8-12
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    8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

    9Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents.

    10Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

    11Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

    12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

  • Exod 32:6
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    6And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

  • 1 Cor 10:14
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    14Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

  • 1 Cor 5:9-11
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    9I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

    10not at all [meaning] with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world:

    11but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

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    7Be not ye therefore partakers with them;

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    3For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

    4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :

  • Exod 34:15
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    15lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;

  • 1 Cor 10:18-22
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    18Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that eat the sacrifices communion with the altar?

    19What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

    20But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.

    21Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

    22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

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    10We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat that serve the tabernacle.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

  • 1 Cor 11:20-22
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    20When therefore ye assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper:

    21for in your eating each one taketh before [other] his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

    22What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

  • Num 25:2
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    2for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

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    41And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

    42But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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    7Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

    8But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

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    31Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

    32Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:

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    8And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

  • 1 Cor 10:27
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    27If one of them that believe not biddeth you [to a feast], and ye are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake.

  • Zech 7:6
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    6And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

  • 1 Cor 8:4
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    4Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no God but one.

  • Ezek 20:7
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    7And I said unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.

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    11And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

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    17If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

  • 1 Cor 8:10
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    10For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

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    2Ye know that when ye were Gentiles [ye were] led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might led.

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    20Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

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    7For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

  • 2 Cor 6:16
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    16And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

  • Exod 34:17
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    17Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;