Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
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Gill's Exposition
Ye know that ye were Gentiles,.... That is, by religion; hence the Syriac version renders it "profane" persons, given up to wickedness, bigotry, and superstition; for by nation they were Gentiles…
Barnes' Notes
Ye know ... - This verse is regarded by many as a parenthesis. But it is not necessary to suppose that it is so, or that it does not cohere with that which follows. The design seems to be to remind…
Adam Clarke
Ye were Gentiles - Previously to your conversion to the Christian faith; ye were heathens, carried away, not guided by reason or truth, but hurried by your passions into a senseless worship, the chief…
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,…
Cambridge Bible
that ye were Gentiles Most modern editors read -that whenye were Gentiles" here. The similarity of ὅτε and ὅτι, and the fact that the introduction of the former produces an unfinished construction,…
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