1 Corinthians 12:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² You know that when you were heathen, you were led astray to dumb idols, however you may have been moved.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² You know that when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols, according as you were led.

1 Corinthians 12:2 Cross References

Psalm 115:5

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

Psalm 115:7

They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat.

Psalm 135:16

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

Isaiah 46:7

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

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. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

1 Corinthians 6:11

And such were some of you. 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.

Galatians 4:8

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were in bondage to beings that by nature are no gods;

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves report concerning us what a welcome we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

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, hated by men and hating one another;

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,

1 Peter 4:3

Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.