1 Corinthians 10:7

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, 'The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.'

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Neither{G3366} be ye{G1096} idolaters,{G1496} as{G2531} were some{G5100} of them;{G846} as{G5613} it is written,{G1125} The people{G2992} sat down{G2523} to eat{G5315} and{G2532} drink,{G4095} and{G2532} rose up{G450} to play.{G3815}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Neither{G3366} be ye{G1096}{(G5737)} idolaters{G1496}, as{G2531} were some{G5100} of them{G846}; as{G5613} it is written{G1125}{(G5769)}, The people{G2992} sat down{G2523}{(G5656)} to eat{G5315}{(G5629)} and{G2532} drink{G4095}{(G5629)}, and{G2532} rose up{G450}{(G5656)} to play{G3815}{(G5721)}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Nether be ye worshippers of Images as were some of them accordynge as it is written: The people sate doune to eate and drynke and rose vp agayne to playe.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Nether be ye worshippers off ymages, as were some of them. Acordinge as it is wrytte: The people sat downe to eate and drynke, and rose vp to playe.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Neither bee ye idolaters as were some of them, as it is written, The people sate downe to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Neither be ye idolatours, as were some of them, as it is written: The people sate downe to eate and drynke, and rose vp to play.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written,“The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 32:6-8 : 6 The next day the people rose early, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings. They sat down to eat and drink and got up to engage in revelry. 7 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves." 8 They have turned aside quickly from the way I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'
  • Exod 32:17 : 17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, "There is the sound of war in the camp."
  • Exod 32:19 : 19 As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the foot of the mountain.
  • Deut 9:12 : 12 Then the LORD said to me, 'Go down immediately, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside from the way I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.'
  • Deut 9:16-21 : 16 I saw that you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made a molten calf for yourselves. You had quickly turned aside from the way the LORD had commanded you. 17 So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them down, shattering them before your eyes. 18 Then I fell down before the LORD as I had done before, for forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the LORD's sight and provoking him to anger. 19 I was afraid of the fierce anger and wrath the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also. 20 The LORD was very angry with Aaron, and he was ready to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron at that time as well. 21 Then I took the sinful thing you had made—the calf—and burned it in the fire. I crushed it, grinding it into fine dust, and threw the dust into the stream that flows down from the mountain.
  • Ps 106:19-20 : 19 They made a calf at Horeb and worshiped a cast image. 20 They exchanged their glory for the image of an ox that eats grass.
  • 1 Cor 5:11 : 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler. With such a person, do not even eat.
  • Exod 32:4 : 4 He took the gold from their hands, fashioned it with a tool, and made it into a molten calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice homosexuality,
  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 However, not everyone knows this. Some, being accustomed to idols until now, eat it as if it were truly food offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.
  • 1 Cor 10:14 : 14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
  • 1 Cor 14:20-22 : 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in regard to evil, but in your thinking be mature. 21 In the Law it is written: 'By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me,' says the Lord. 22 Thus, tongues are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign, not for unbelievers but for believers.
  • 1 John 5:21 : 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 10:3-6
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    3 They all ate the same spiritual food.

    4 They all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

    5 But God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

    6 Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not desire evil things as they did.

  • 1 Cor 10:8-12
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    8 We must not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell.

    9 We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and they were killed by snakes.

    10 Do not grumble, as some of them did, and they were destroyed by the destroyer.

    11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

    12 So then, let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

  • Exod 32:6
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    6 The next day the people rose early, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings. They sat down to eat and drink and got up to engage in revelry.

  • 1 Cor 10:14
    73%

    14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

  • 1 Cor 5:9-11
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    9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

    10 I did not at all mean the sexually immoral people of this world, or the greedy, or swindlers, or idolaters. In that case, you would have to leave the world.

    11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler. With such a person, do not even eat.

  • Eph 5:7
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    7 Therefore, do not be partners with them.

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3 For you have already spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

    4 They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

  • Exod 34:15
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    15 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices.

  • 1 Cor 10:18-22
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    70%

    18 Consider the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?

    19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or that food sacrificed to idols is anything?

    20 No, but what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons.

    21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

    22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He is?

  • Heb 13:10
    70%

    10 We have an altar from which those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    70%

    7 Do not be like your ancestors and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their ancestors, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.

  • 1 Cor 11:20-22
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    20 When you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper that you eat.

    21 For when you eat, each one takes his own supper ahead of others. One goes hungry, and another gets drunk.

    22 Don't you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Shall I praise you? I will certainly not praise you in this matter.

  • Num 25:2
    69%

    2 The women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

  • Acts 7:41-42
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    41 At that time, they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

    42 But God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you bring me offerings and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?'

  • 1 Cor 8:7-8
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    7 However, not everyone knows this. Some, being accustomed to idols until now, eat it as if it were truly food offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.

    8 Food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

  • 1 Cor 10:31-32
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    31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

    32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks, or the church of God.

  • Jer 16:8
    69%

    8 Do not enter a house where feasting is taking place to sit with them, to eat and drink.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12 They served idols, about which the Lord had said to them, 'You shall not do this thing.'

  • 1 Cor 10:27
    69%

    27 If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is placed before you without raising questions of conscience.

  • Zech 7:6
    68%

    6 And when you eat and when you drink, aren’t you eating and drinking for yourselves?

  • 1 Cor 8:4
    68%

    4 So then, concerning eating food sacrificed to idols: we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and there is no God but one.

  • Ezek 20:7
    68%

    7 And I said to them, 'Each of you, get rid of the detestable things your eyes are set on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'

  • 1 Cor 6:11
    68%

    11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

  • 1 Cor 8:10
    68%

    10 For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won’t their weak conscience be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols?

  • 1 Cor 12:2
    68%

    2 You know that when you were Gentiles, you were led to speechless idols, however you were led.

  • Prov 23:20
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    20 Do not be among heavy drinkers of wine or gluttons of meat.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
    67%

    7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

  • 2 Cor 6:16
    67%

    16 What agreement can there be between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: 'I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.'

  • Exod 34:17
    67%

    17 Do not make any molten gods for yourselves.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

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