1 Corinthians 12:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

1 Corinthians 12:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 4:3
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
Psalms 115:5
They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
Ephesians 2:11-12
Wherefore remember, that ye 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; …
Galatians 4:8
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

The apostle comes now to treat of spiritual gifts, which abounded in the church of Corinth, but were greatly abused. What these gifts were is at large told us in the body of the chapter; namely, extraordinary offices and powers, bestowed on ministers and Christians in the first ages, for conviction of unbelievers, and propagation of the gospel. Gifts and graces, charismata and charis, greatly diff…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. (Ep 2:11). that ye were--The best manuscripts read, “That WHEN ye were”; thus “ye were” must be supplied before “carried away”--Ye were blindly transported hither and thither at the will of your false guides. these dumb idols--Greek, “the idols which are dumb”; contrasted with the living God who “speaks” in the believer by His Spirit (1Co 12:3, &c.). This gives the reason why the Corinthians ne…