1 Corinthians 10:7
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7 Do not become idolaters as some of them did, as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.”(A)
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Exodus 32:6-8
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6 They rose early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being, and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to revel.(A)
7 The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely;(B) 8 they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ ”(C)
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Psalm 106:19-20
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19 They made a calf at Horeb
and worshiped a cast image.(A)
20 They exchanged the glory of God[a]
for the image of an ox that eats grass.(B)
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- 106.20 Compare Gk mss: Heb exchanged their glory
1 Corinthians 10:14
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14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from the worship of idols.(A)
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1 Corinthians 6:9
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9 Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes,[a] men who engage in illicit sex,[b](A)
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Deuteronomy 9:12
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12 Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up; go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have been quick to turn from the way that I commanded them; they have cast an image for themselves.’(A)
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Deuteronomy 9:16-21
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16 Then I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God, by casting for yourselves an image;[a] you had been quick to turn from the way that the Lord had commanded you.(A) 17 So I took hold of the two tablets and flung them from my two hands, smashing them before your eyes. 18 Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all the sin you had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight.(B) 19 For I was afraid that the anger that the Lord bore against you was so fierce that he would destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also.(C) 20 The Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him, but I interceded also on behalf of Aaron at that same time. 21 Then I took the sinful thing you had made, the calf, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was reduced to dust, and I threw the dust into the stream that runs down the mountain.(D)
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- 9.16 Gk: Heb image of a calf
1 Corinthians 5:11
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11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother or sister who is sexually immoral or greedy or an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler. Do not even eat with such a one.
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1 John 5:21
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21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.[a]
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- 5.21 Other ancient authorities add Amen
Exodus 32:19
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19 As soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’s anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.(A)
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Exodus 32:17
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17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”
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Exodus 32:4
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4 He took these from them, formed them in a mold,[a] and cast an image of a calf, and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”(A)
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- 32.4 Or fashioned it with an engraving tool; meaning of Heb uncertain
1 Corinthians 14:20-22
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20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.(A) 21 In the law it is written,
“By people of strange tongues
and by the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people,
yet even then they will not listen to me,”
says the Lord.(B) 22 Tongues, then, are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.
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1 Corinthians 8:7
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7 It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they eat as food offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.(A)
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