1 Corinthians 10:7 (DBY)

Passage

Neither 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.

Nearby Context

1 Corinthians 10:5 yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

1 Corinthians 10:6 But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

1 Corinthians 10:7 Neither 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.

1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

1 Corinthians 10:9 Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "neither", "idolaters", "some", "written", "people", "down", "drink", and "rose". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "neither" and "idolaters", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "But these things happened as types of..." into verse 8's "Neither let us commit fornication as some...", so "neither" and "idolaters" belong inside that flow. In 1 Corinthians context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "neither" and "idolaters" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.