1 Corinthians 12:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

1 Corinthians 12:2

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

That

1 Peter 4:3

Dumb

Psalm 115:5

Psalm 135:16

Habakkuk 2:18

Even

Matthew 15:14

1 Peter 1:18

Bible References

That

And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

Dumb

They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not;

They have mouths, but no voice, they have eyes, but they do not see;

What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?

Even

Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,