1 Corinthians 12:2

Paul reminds them that as pagans they were led astray to mute, lifeless idols. Their former blindness contrasts with the Spirit's true leading.

Cross-references · 15

• 1 Pet 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
• 1 Th 1:9For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
• Ps 115:5They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;
• Gal 4:8Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
• Eph 2:11–12Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
• 1 Cor 6:11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
• Jer 10:5Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”
• Hab 2:18–19What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
• Ps 115:7they have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even clear their throats.
• Eph 4:17–18So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
• Matt 15:14Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
• Isa 46:7They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Ps 135:16They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;
• 1 Pet 1:18For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

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