1 Corinthians 12:2

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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

Even

Matthew 15:14

1 Peter 1:18

Bible References

That

Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

In those days, when you were ignorant of God, you were in servitude to gods who are really no gods at all;

Remember, then, that once upon a time you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called 'the Uncircumcision' by that so-called 'Circumcision' which is itself the product of human hands in the flesh ??12 remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.

Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

People tell us of their own accord about the visit we paid to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and a real God

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

Even

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."

you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,