1 Corinthians 12:2
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2 You know that when you were gentiles you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak.(A)
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1 Thessalonians 1:9
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9 For they report about us what kind of welcome we had among you and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God(A)
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1 Peter 4:3
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3 You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(A)
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Psalm 115:5
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5 They have mouths, but they do not speak;
they have eyes, but they do not see.
Ephesians 2:11-12
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One in Christ
11 So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth,[a] called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”—a circumcision made in the flesh by human hands(A)— 12 remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.(B)
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- 2.11 Gk in the flesh
Galatians 4:8
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Paul Reproves the Galatians
8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.(A)
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1 Corinthians 6:11
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11 And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ[a] and in the Spirit of our God.(A)
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- 6.11 Other ancient authorities lack Christ
Ephesians 4:17-18
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The Old Life and the New
17 Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer walk as the[a] gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds;(A) 18 they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.(B)
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Habakkuk 2:18-19
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18 What use is an idol
once its maker has shaped it—
a cast image, a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in what has been made,
though the product is only an idol that cannot speak!(A)
19 Alas for you who say to the wood, “Wake up!”
to silent stone, “Rouse yourself!”
Can it teach?
See, it is gold and silver plated,
and there is no breath in it at all.(B)
Jeremiah 10:5
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5 Their idols[a] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and they cannot speak;
they have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
for they cannot do evil,
nor is it in them to do good.(A)
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- 10.5 Heb They
1 Peter 1:18
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18 You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold
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Titus 3:3
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3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.(A)
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Matthew 15:14
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14 Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind.[a] And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.”(A)
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- 15.14 Other ancient authorities lack of the blind
Isaiah 46:7
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7 They lift it to their shoulders; they carry it;
they set it in its place, and it stands there;
it cannot move from its place.
If one cries out to it, it does not answer
or save anyone from trouble.(A)
Psalm 135:16
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16 They have mouths, but they do not speak;
they have eyes, but they do not see;
Psalm 115:7
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7 They have hands, but they do not feel;
they have feet, but they do not walk;
they make no sound in their throats.
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