but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.
1 Corinthians 10:14 - New Revised Standard Version Therefore, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
What do I imply then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.”
But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother or sister who is sexually immoral or greedy, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber. Do not even eat with such a one.
I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? We are speaking in Christ before God. Everything we do, beloved, is for the sake of building you up.
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 of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.
Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our dear friend and co-worker,
Even though we speak in this way, beloved, we are confident of better things in your case, things that belong to salvation.
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.
and all the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered.
But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and practice fornication.
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the fornicators, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.