1 Corinthians 10:14

Good News Translation

So then, my dear friends, keep away from 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.

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.

Weymouth's New Testament
Therefore, my dear friends, avoid all connection with the worship of idols.

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 Now, all of this is an example for us, to warn us not to desire evil things, as they did, ⁷ nor to worship idols, as some of them did. As the scripture says, "The people sat down to a feast which turned into an orgy of drinking and sex." ⁸ We must not be guilty of sexual immorality, as some of them were—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell dead. ⁹ We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did—and they were killed by snakes. ¹⁰ We must not complain, as some of them did—and they were destroyed by the Angel of Death. ¹¹ All these things happened to them as examples for others, and they were written down as a warning for us. For we live at a time when the end is about to come. ¹² If you think you are standing firm you had better be careful that you do not fall. ¹³ Every test that you have experienced is the kind that normally comes to people. But God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test, he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out. ¹⁴ So then, my dear friends, keep away from 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

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 2:23
The land along the Mediterranean coast had been settled by people from the island of Crete. They had destroyed the Avvim, the original inhabitants, and had taken over all their land as far south as the city of Gaza.)

1 Chronicles 1:12
Pathrus, Casluh, and of Crete (from whom the Philistines were descended).

Isaiah 11:11
When that day comes, the Lord will once again use his power and bring back home those of his people who are left in Assyria and Egypt, in the lands of Pathros, Ethiopia, Elam, Babylonia, and Hamath, and in the coastlands and on the islands of the sea.

Jeremiah 44:1
The Lord spoke to me concerning all the Israelites living in Egypt, in the cities of Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis, and in the southern part of the country.

Jeremiah 47:4
The time has come to destroy Philistia, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon all the help that remains. I, the Lord , will destroy the Philistines, all who came from the shores of Crete.

Amos 9:7
The Lord says, "People of Israel, I think as much of the people of Ethiopia as I do of you. I brought the Philistines from Crete and the Syrians from Kir, just as I brought you from Egypt.

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.