1 Corinthians 12:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² You know that when you were gentiles you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² You know that when you were heathen, you were led off after idols that could not speak [habitually] as impulse directed and whenever the occasion might arise.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might be led.

Common English Bible

² You know that when you were Gentiles you were often misled by false gods that can’t even speak.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² You know that when you were Gentiles, you approached mute idols, doing what you were led to do.

1 Corinthians 12:2 Cross References

1 Peter 4:3

You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they report about us what kind of welcome we had among you and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God

Psalm 115:5

They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see.

Galatians 4:8

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Jeremiah 10:5

Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, nor is it in them to do good.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.”

Isaiah 46:7

They lift it to their shoulders; they carry it; they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries out to it, it does not answer or save anyone from trouble.

Psalm 135:16

They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see;

Psalm 115:7

They have hands, but they do not feel; they have feet, but they do not walk; they make no sound in their throats.