1 Corinthians 12:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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 they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;

Psalm 115:7

They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat.

Psalm 135:16

They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;

Isaiah 46:7

They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

Jeremiah 10:5

They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. 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 the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 4:8

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them which by nature are no gods:

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

Titus 3:3

For we also were aforetime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

1 Peter 1:18

knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;

1 Peter 4:3

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: