1 Corinthians 10:7

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1 Corinthians 10:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

6 These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

7 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.”

8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

9 We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.

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1 Corinthians 14:21

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1 Corinthians 14:22

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1 Corinthians 5:11

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1 Corinthians 6:9

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1 Corinthians 8:7

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Deuteronomy 9:12

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Deuteronomy 9:16

And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 9:17

So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

Deuteronomy 9:19

For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.

Deuteronomy 9:20

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Deuteronomy 9:21

And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

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Psalms 106:20

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Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Exodus 32:6

So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.

Exodus 32:7

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

Exodus 32:8

How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

Exodus 32:17

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Exodus 32:19

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