1 Corinthians 10:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ 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 dance.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Do not be worshipers of false gods as some of them were, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink [the sacrifices offered to the golden calf at Horeb] and rose to sport (to dance and give way to jesting and hilarity). [Exod. 32:4, 6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ 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.

Common English Bible

⁷ Don’t worship false gods like some of them did, as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and they got up to play”.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And so, do not take part in idolatry, as some of them did, just as it was written: "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and then they rose up to amuse themselves."

1 Corinthians 10:7 Cross References

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts,

1 Corinthians 10:14

Therefore, my beloved, shun the worship of idols.

Deuteronomy 9:12

Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly; they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molten image.’

1 Corinthians 5:11

But rather I wrote to you not to associate with any one who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber—not even to eat with such a one.

1 John 5:21

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Exodus 32:19

And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tables out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

Exodus 32:17

When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”

Exodus 32:4

And he received the gold at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made a molten calf; and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

1 Corinthians 8:7

However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through being hitherto accustomed to idols, eat food as really offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Acts 15:20

but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood.