7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in pagan revelry."


In Context

4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert.

6 Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.

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

8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did--and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

9 We should not test the Lord, as some of them did--and were killed by snakes.

1st Corinthians 10:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:7Neither 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:7Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:7Neither 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:7Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:7Neither 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:7Neither 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:7Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, |The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:7Neither 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;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:7Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.