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1 Corinthians 12:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be enticed and led astray by mute  idols.

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For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the Gentiles choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behaviour, evil desires,  drunkenness, orgies,  carousing, and lawless idolatry.


for they themselves report  what kind of reception  we had from you: how you turned  to God from idols  to serve the living  and true  God


But in the past, since you didn’t know God,  you were enslaved to things  that by nature are not gods.


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


Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried  because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm   – and they cannot do any good.


For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life  inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,


For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions  and pleasures,  living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.


Leave them alone! They are blind guides.   And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.’


They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands; it does not budge from its place. They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer; it saves no one from his trouble.





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