Galatians 4:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ But in the past, since you didn’t know God,  you were enslaved to things  that by nature are not gods.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ But at that previous time, when you had not come to be acquainted with and understand and know the true God, you [Gentiles] were in bondage to gods who by their very nature could not be gods at all [gods that really did not exist].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:

Common English Bible

⁸ At the time, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved by things that aren’t gods by nature.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ But then, certainly, while ignorant of God, you served those who, by nature, are not gods.

Galatians 4:8 Cross References

2 Chronicles 13:9

Didn’t you banish the priests of the Lord, the descendants of Aaron and the Levites, and make your own priests like the peoples of other lands do?  Whoever comes to ordain himself  with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest  of what are not gods.

Exodus 5:2

But Pharaoh responded, ‘Who is the Lord that I should obey him by letting Israel go?  I don’t know  the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.’

Isaiah 37:19

They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods  but made from wood and stone  by human hands.  So they have destroyed them.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t recognise you and on the families that don’t call on your name, for they have consumed Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off and made his homeland desolate.

Jeremiah 16:20

Can one make gods for himself? But they are not gods.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation ever exchanged its gods? (But they were not gods!  ) Yet my people have exchanged their   Glory for useless idols.

Jeremiah 5:7

Why should I forgive you? Your children have abandoned me and sworn by those who are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery; they gashed themselves  at the   prostitute’s house.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world was created  through him, and yet the world did not recognise him.

Acts 14:12

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

Acts 17:23

For as I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, “To an Unknown God.” Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.

Romans 1:23

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.

Romans 1:28

And because they did not think it worth while to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of what is preached.

1 Corinthians 12:2

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

1 Corinthians 8:4

About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’,  and that ‘there is no God but one’.

Galatians 4:3

In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elements  of the world.

Ephesians 4:18

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.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

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

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not with lustful passions,  like the Gentiles, who don’t know God.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

when he takes vengeance with flaming fire  on those who don’t know God  and on those who don’t obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Joshua 24:15

But if it doesn’t please you to worship the Lord, choose for yourselves today: Which will you worship #– #the gods your ancestors worshipped beyond the River Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living?  As for me and my family, we will worship the Lord.’

Joshua 24:2

Joshua said to all the people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: “Long ago your ancestors, including Terah,  the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the River Euphrates and worshipped other gods.

1 Peter 4:3

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

1 John 3:1

See what great love  the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children #– #and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.