1 Corinthians 10:7

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.”

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  • Exod 32:6-8 : 6 So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play. 7 The LORD spoke to Moses:“Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly. 8 They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”
  • Exod 32:17 : 17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses,“It is the sound of war in the camp!”
  • Exod 32:19 : 19 When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.
  • Deut 9:12 : 12 And he said to me,“Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.”
  • Deut 9:16-21 : 16 When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you! 17 I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes. 18 Then I again fell down before the LORD for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the LORD as to enrage him. 19 For I was terrified at the LORD’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well. 20 The LORD was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him too. 21 As for your sinful thing that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
  • Ps 106:19-20 : 19 They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol. 20 They traded their majestic God 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 calls himself a Christian who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.
  • Exod 32:4 : 4 He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said,“These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,
  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.
  • 1 Cor 10:14 : 14 Avoid Idol Feasts So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
  • 1 Cor 14:20-22 : 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. 21 It is written in the law:“By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord. 22 So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.
  • 1 John 5:21 : 21 Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

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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 were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

    5But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

    6These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

  • 1 Cor 10:8-12
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    8And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

    9And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

    10And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

    11These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 10:14
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    14Avoid Idol Feasts So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

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

    10In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

    11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

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

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

    4So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

  • Exod 34:15
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    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;

  • 1 Cor 10:18-22
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    18Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?

    19Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

    20No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

    21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot take part in the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

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

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

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see.

  • 1 Cor 11:20-22
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    20Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord’s Supper.

    21For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

    22Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

  • Num 25:2
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    2These women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

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

    42But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

  • 1 Cor 8:7-8
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    7But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.

    8Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

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

    32Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

  • Jer 16:8
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    8“‘Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • 1 Cor 10:27
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    27If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.

  • Zech 7:6
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    6And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?’”

  • 1 Cor 8:4
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    4With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that“an idol in this world is nothing,” and that“there is no God but one.”

  • Ezek 20:7
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    7I said to them,“Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.”

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • 1 Cor 8:10
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    10For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be“strengthened” to eat food offered to idols?

  • 1 Cor 12:2
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    2You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.

  • Prov 23:20
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    20Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

  • 2 Cor 6:16
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    16And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said,“I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

  • Exod 34:17
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    17You must not make yourselves molten gods.

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