1 Corinthians 10:7 (YLT)

Passage

Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

Nearby Context

1 Corinthians 10:5 but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,

1 Corinthians 10:6 and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

1 Corinthians 10:7 Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

1 Corinthians 10:8 neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

1 Corinthians 10:9 neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "and those things became types of us..." into verse 8's "neither may we commit whoredom as certain...", so "neither" and "become" 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 "become" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.