1 Corinthians 10:7

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.

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  • Exod 32:6-8 : 6 They rose up early the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 7 The LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once; for your people whom you brought 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 a molten calf, have worshiped it, have sacrificed to it, and have said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
  • Exod 32:17 : 17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is a noise of war in the camp."
  • Exod 32:19 : 19 As soon as he came near the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
  • Deut 9:12 : 12 And the LORD said to me, Arise, go down quickly from here; for your people which you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten image.
  • Deut 9:16-21 : 16 And I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made for yourselves a molten calf: you had quickly turned aside out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 And I took the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread nor drink water, because of all your sins which you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at that time also. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at that time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I threw the dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.
  • Ps 106:19-20 : 19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molten image. 20 Thus they changed their glory into the likeness of an ox that eats grass.
  • 1 Cor 5:11 : 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
  • Exod 32:4 : 4 He received them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 However, not everyone has this knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.
  • 1 Cor 10:14 : 14 Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
  • 1 Cor 14:20-22 : 20 Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature. 21 In the law it is written: With men of other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people, and yet for all that they will not hear me, says the Lord. 22 Therefore, tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to those who do not believe; but prophesying is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.
  • 1 John 5:21 : 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

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  • 1 Cor 10:3-6
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    3And all ate the same spiritual food;

    4And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank from that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

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

    6Now these things were our examples, so we should not desire evil things, as they also desired.

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

    9Do not tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by snakes.

    10Do not complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

    11Now all these things happened to them as examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

    12Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

  • Exod 32:6
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    6They rose up early the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

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

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

    10Yet not entirely with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the greedy, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

    11But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

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

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in sensuality, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

    4Wherein they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

  • Exod 34:15
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    15Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice.

  • 1 Cor 10:18-22
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    18Consider Israel after the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

    19What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?

    20But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.

    21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons: you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons.

    22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

  • Heb 13:10
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    10We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7And do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.

  • 1 Cor 11:20-22
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    20When you come together therefore in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

    21For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others, and one is hungry and another is drunk.

    22What? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

  • Num 25:2
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    2And they called 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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    41And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

    42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did you offer to me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

  • 1 Cor 8:7-8
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    7However, not everyone has this knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.

    8But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better, nor if we do not eat are we worse.

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

    32Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

  • Jer 16:8
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    8You shall not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • 1 Cor 10:27
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    27If any of those who do not believe invite you to a meal, and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake.

  • Zech 7:6
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    6And when you ate and when you drank, did you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

  • 1 Cor 8:4
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    4Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

  • Ezek 20:7
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    7Then I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

  • 1 Cor 8:10
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    10For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

  • 1 Cor 12:2
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    2You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these mute idols, even as you were led.

  • Prov 23:20
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    20Do not be among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of meat:

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  • 2 Cor 6:16
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    16And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

  • Exod 34:17
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    17You shall make no molten gods for yourself.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God: