apo marks movement, separation, origin, or a point of departure in the clauses where it occurs.

As a preposition, apo marks a relation of departure or separation and can identify a source or starting point: recipients receive grace from God, a message is heard from him, people turn from idols, and judgment begins from the house of God.

1. Prepositional marker of source, departure, and separation · dominant

   The supplied forms are all tagged as Preposition. In 1 Corinthians 11:23 the APB renders receipt “from the Lord,” while 1 Thessalonians 1:9 renders a turning “from the idols”; 1 Peter 4:17 presents judgment beginning “from the house of God,” and 1 Corinthians 10:14 renders a command to flee “from idolatry.”

   1 Corinthians 11:231 Thessalonians 1:91 Peter 4:171 Corinthians 10:141 Corinthians 1:31 John 1:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited clauses, the APB commonly expresses the relation with “from,” and also uses “flee from” and “turning … from.” These renderings indicate the clause-level relation rather than a fixed English equivalent.