1 Corinthians 12:2
All of you know that all of you were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as all of you were led.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
In Context
1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
Cross References
Psalms 115:7They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
Isaiah 46:7They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he stands; 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.
Habakkuk 2:18What profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts therein, to make dumb idols?
1 Corinthians 6:11And such were some of you: but all of you are washed, but all of you are sanctified, but all of you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit (o. pneuma) of our God.
Ephesians 2:11Wherefore remember, that all of you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
1 Thessalonians 1:9For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how all of you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 12:2-12
On Spiritual Gifts. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. 3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. 4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 6 And there are… Read the whole commentary →