📖WEB · 1 Corinthians 10:7
What does 1 Corinthians 10:7 mean?
"Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”"
— 1 Corinthians 10:7 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”
Let us not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
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