You know that when you were pagans, you used to be enticed and led astray by mute idols.

你们作外邦人的时候，随事被牵引，受迷惑，去服侍那哑巴偶像，这是你们知道的。

你们知道，你们作外邦人的时候，随事被引诱，受了迷惑去拜不会出声的偶像。

你们知道，你们作外邦人的时候，随事被引诱，受了迷惑去拜不会出声的偶像。

你们知道，自己在信主前曾受到迷惑和引诱去拜不会说话的偶像。

你们知道，你们还是教外人的时候，总是受迷惑被引诱，去拜那不能说话的偶像。

你们知道，当你们还是外邦人的时候，是怎样被引诱、被带到那些不能说话的偶像那里的。

你們作外邦人的時候，隨事被牽引，受迷惑，去服事那啞巴偶像，這是你們知道的。

你們知道，你們作外邦人的時候，隨事被引誘，受了迷惑去拜不會出聲的偶像。

你們知道，你們作外邦人的時候，隨事被引誘，受了迷惑去拜不會出聲的偶像。

你們知道，自己在信主前曾受到迷惑和引誘去拜不會說話的偶像。

你們知道，你們還是教外人的時候，總是受迷惑被引誘，去拜那不能說話的偶像。

你們知道、你們還未信教的時候、怎樣被帶走，隨事受牽引、去拜不能出聲的偶像。

你們知道，當你們還是外邦人的時候，是怎樣被引誘、被帶到那些不能說話的偶像那裡的。

爾為異邦人時、惑於瘖偶、隨所牽引、爾所知也、

爾乃異邦人、素惑於不言之偶像、隨人所誘、

爾原為異邦人、昔崇事不能言之偶像、隨人所誘、此爾所知也、

爾當猶憶昔為外教人時、如何溺於習俗、惑於無靈之偶像。

You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.

You know that at one time you were unbelievers. You were somehow drawn away to worship statues of gods that couldn’t even speak.

You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.

You know that when you were still pagans, you were led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols.

You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led.

You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led.

Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might be led.

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.

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

You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the Gentiles choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

for they themselves report what kind of reception we had from you: how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see.

So, then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh— called“ the uncircumcised” by those called“ the circumcised,” which is done in the flesh by human hands.At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.

What use is a carved idol after its craftsman carves it? It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies. For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it and makes worthless idols that cannot speak.Woe to him who says to wood: Wake up! or to mute stone: Come alive! Can it teach? Look! It may be plated with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.

And some of you used to be like this. 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.

But in the past, since you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

Like 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 they cannot do any good.

They have hands but cannot feel, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot make a sound with their throats.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Leave them alone! They are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands; it does not budge from its place. They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer; it saves no one from his trouble.

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts.They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see.

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,