1 Corinthians 10:14

Weymouth New Testament

Therefore, my dear friends, avoid all connection with the worship of idols.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore my dearely beloued, flee from idolatrie.

King James Version
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

English Standard Version
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

New American Standard Bible
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

New Century Version
So, my dear friends, run away from the worship of idols.

Amplified Bible
Therefore, my beloved, run [keep far, far away] from [any sort of] idolatry [and that includes loving anything more than God, or participating in anything that leads to sin and enslaves the soul].

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Berean Standard Bible
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Contemporary English Version
My friends, you must keep away from idols.

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, my dear friends, run from idolatry!

Darby Translation
Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Easy-to-Read Version
So, my dear friends, stay away from worshiping idols.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore my beloued, flee from idolatrie.

George Lamsa Translation
Therefore, my beloved, keep away from idolatry.

Good News Translation
So then, my dear friends, keep away from the worship of idols.

Lexham English Bible
Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

Literal Translation
On account of this, flee from idolatry, my beloved.

American Standard Version
Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Bible in Basic English
For this cause, my dear brothers, give no worship to false gods.

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

International Standard Version
And so, my dear friends, keep on running away from idolatry.1 Corinthians 10:7; 2 Corinthians 6:17; 1 John 5:21;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
14 WHEREFORE, my beloved, flee from the worship [fn] of idols.

Murdock Translation
Wherefore, my Beloved, flee from idolatry.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore my deare beloued, flee from idolatrie.

English Revised Version
Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

World English Bible
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Wherfor, ye most dereworthe to me, fle ye fro worschiping of maumetis.

Update Bible Version
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

New English Translation
So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

New King James Version
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

New Living Translation
So, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols.

New Life Bible
My dear friends, keep away from the worship of false gods.

New Revised Standard
Therefore, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry, -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols.

Revised Standard Version
Therefore, my beloved, shun the worship of idols.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Wherfore my deare beloued fle from worshippynge of ydols.

Young's Literal Translation
Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore my dearly beloued, fle from worshippinge of Idols.

Mace New Testament (1729)
wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

THE MESSAGE
So, my very dear friends, when you see people reducing God to something they can use or control, get out of their company as fast as you can.

Simplified Cowboy Version
So stay away from worshiping idols.

Contextual Overview

⁶ And in this they became a warning to us, to teach us not to be eager, as they were eager, in pursuit of what is evil. ⁷ And you must not be worshippers of idols, as some of them were. For it is written, "The People sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance." ⁸ Nor may we be fornicators, like some of them who committed fornication and on a single day 23,000 of them fell dead. ⁹ And do not let us test the Lord too far, as some of them tested Him and were destroyed by the serpents. ¹⁰ And do not be discontented, as some of them were, and they were destroyed by the Destroyer. ¹¹ All this kept happening to them with a figurative meaning; but it was put on record by way of admonition to us upon whom the ends of the Ages have come. ¹² So then let him who thinks he is standing securely beware of falling. ¹³ No temptation has you in its power but such as is common to human nature; and God is faithful and will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. But, when the temptation comes, He will also provide the way of escape; so that you may be able to bear it. ¹⁴ Therefore, my dear friends, avoid all connection with the worship of idols.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my: Romans 12:19, 2 Corinthians 7:1, 2 Corinthians 11:11, 2 Corinthians 12:15, 2 Corinthians 12:19, Philippians 4:1, Philemon 1:1, 1 Peter 2:11

flee: 1 Corinthians 10:7, 1 Corinthians 10:20, 1 Corinthians 10:21, 2 Corinthians 6:17, 1 John 5:21, Revelation 2:14, Revelation 13:8, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:4 - General Ezekiel 31:18 - This is 1 Corinthians 4:10 - are wise 1 Corinthians 5:11 - or an idolater 1 Timothy 6:11 - flee 2 Timothy 2:22 - Flee

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore, my dearly beloved,.... Some copies add, "brethren"; as do the Complutensian edition, and Ethiopic version; all which endearing epithets are used to persuade to attend to the exhortation enforced upon the foregoing considerations; since the Jewish fathers, who were idolaters, fell so much under the divine displeasure; and since such who thought they stood were so liable to fall, and the temptation to which they exposed themselves was of such a dangerous consequence; therefore,

flee from idolatry; as what is most dishonourable, pernicious, and abominable: the apostle's meaning is, not only that they would not worship idols, or commit plain downright acts of idolatry; but that they would stand at the greatest distance from idols, not so much as go into an idol's temple, and there sit down and eat; which if not a real act of idolatry, had at least the show of one; and his sense is, that they would abstain from all appearance of idolatry, from every occasion of it, and whatsoever led unto it; particularly he means, that they would not eat of things sacrificed to idols as such, and in an idol's temple; which he considers as a species of idolatrous worship, and by a similar instance he after proves it to be so, even a partaking of the table of devils.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore - In view of the dangers and temptations that beset you; in view of your own feebleness and the perils to which you would be exposed in the idol temples, etc.

Flee from idolatry - Escape from the service of idols; from the feasts celebrated in honor of them; from the temples where they are worshipped. This was one of the dangers to which they were especially exposed; and Paul therefore exhorts them to escape from everything that would have a tendency to lead them into this sin. He had told them, indeed, that God was faithful; and yet he did not expect that God would keep them without any effort of their own. He therefore exhorts them to flee from all approaches to it, and from all the customs which would have a tendency to lead them into idolatrous practices. He returns, therefore, in this verse, to the particular subject discussed in 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 - the propriety of partaking of the feasts in honor of idols; and shows the danger which would follow such a practice. That danger he sets forth in view of the admonitions contained in this chapter, from 1 Corinthians 10:1 to 1 Corinthians 10:12. The remainder of the chapter is occupied with a discussion of the question stated in 1 Corinthians 8:1-13, whether it was right for them to partake of the meat which was used in the feasts of idolaters.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 10:14. Therefore - flee from idolatry. — This is a trial of no great magnitude; to escape from so gross a temptation requires but a moderate portion of grace and circumspection.