1 Corinthians 10:7 BSB

1 Corinthians 10:7

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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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Commentary

4 voices

Tertullian

Against Marcion Book V (220)

Will his antagonist make me better disposed to him? Should I now commit the same sins as the people, shall I have to suffer the same penalties, or not? But if not the same, how vainly does he propose to me terrors which I shall not have to endure! From whom, again, shall I have to endure them? If from the Creator, What evils does it appertain to Him to inflict? And how will it happen that, jealous God as He is, He shall punish the man who offends His rival, instead of rather encouraging him.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The sin of the golden calf is referred to, Exod. xxxii. They first sacrificed to their idol, then feasted on the sacrifices, and then danced before it. Though only eating and drinking are mentioned here, yet the sacrifice is supposed.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Neither be ye idolaters - This caution is evidently given in view of the danger to which they would be exposed if they partook of the feasts that were celebrated in honor of idols in their temples. The particular idolatry which is referred to here is, the worship of the golden calf that was made by Aaron Exo 32:1-5. As it is written - Exo 32:6. The people sat down to eat and to drink - To worship the golden calf. They partook of a feast in honor of that idol.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
μηδὲ	mēde	Neither	G3366 →
εἰδωλολάτραι	eidōlolatrai	idolaters	G1496 →
γίνεσθε	ginesthe	do become	G1096 →
καθώς	kathōs	even as	G2531 →
τινες	tines	some	G5100 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
ὥσπερ	hōsper	as	G5618 →
γέγραπται·	gegraptai	it has been written:	G1125 →
ἐκάθισεν	ekathisen	Sat down	G2523 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
λαὸς	laos	people	G2992 →
φαγεῖν	phagein	to eat	G5315 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πεῖν	pein	to drink	G4095 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀνέστησαν	anestēsan	rose up	G450 →
παίζειν.	paizein	to play.	G3815 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
leads to
- 1 Timothy 1:9–10
  We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,
- Galatians 5:19–21
  The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- Ephesians 5:4–5
  Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.
- Leviticus 20:13
  If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
- Leviticus 18:22
  You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
Through
1 Corinthians 10:14
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
leads to
- Revelation 21:8
  But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…
- 1 John 5:21
  Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
- 2 Corinthians 7:1
  Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.