King James Version (KJV)

1 Corinthians 10:7

“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.”

Verse in context — 1 Corinthians 10

But with many 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.

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.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

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