but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood.
1 Corinthians 10:14 - Revised Standard Version Therefore, my beloved, shun the worship of idols. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore, my dearly beloved, shun (keep clear away from, avoid by flight if need be) any sort of idolatry (of loving or venerating anything more than God). American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. Common English Bible So then, my dear friends, run away from the worship of false gods! Catholic Public Domain Version Because of this, most beloved of mine, flee from the worship of idols. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols. |
but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood.
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to dance.”
But rather I wrote to you not to associate with any one who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber—not even to eat with such a one.
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less?
Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you,
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.
Therefore, my brethren, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.
Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
Though we speak thus, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things that belong to salvation.
Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul.
and all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.
But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice immorality.
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and every one who loves and practices falsehood.