1 Corinthians 10:7

Paul warns the Corinthians not to be idolaters like Israel, who worshiped the golden calf with feasting and revelry. Idolatry is a real danger even for those who have received God's blessings.

Cross-references · 13

• Exod 32:6–8So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.
• Ps 106:19–20At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
• 1 Cor 6:9Do 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 acts,
• Deut 9:12And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”
• 1 Cor 10:14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
• Deut 9:16–21And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
• 1 Cor 5:11But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
• Exod 32:17When Joshua heard the sound of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “The sound of war is in the camp.”
• Exod 32:19As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.
• 1 Jn 5:21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
• Exod 32:4He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
• 1 Cor 14:20–22Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
• 1 Cor 8:7But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

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