1 Corinthians 10:7 meaning and explanation

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.”

1 Corinthians 10:7, Berean Standard Bible

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Paul is warning the Corinthian believers against idolatry by pointing back to Israel's wilderness generation. He quotes Exodus 32:6, the golden calf episode, where the people ate and drank before an idol and then rose up for revelry.

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