Galatians 4:8 - Revised Standard Version

⁸ Formerly, when you did not know God, you were in bondage to beings that by nature are no 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them, who, by nature, are not gods.

Galatians 4:8 Cross References

2 Chronicles 13:9

Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods.

Exodus 5:2

But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should heed his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

Isaiah 37:19

and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they were destroyed.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the peoples that call not on thy name; for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

Jeremiah 16:20

Can man make for himself gods? Such are no gods!”

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Jeremiah 5:7

“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of harlots.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not.

Acts 14:12

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

Acts 17:23

For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

Romans 1:23

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were heathen, you were led astray to dumb idols, however you may have been moved.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Galatians 4:3

So with us; when we were children, we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe.

Ephesians 4:18

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart;

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves report concerning us what a welcome we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God;

2 Thessalonians 1:8

inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Joshua 24:15

And if you be unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Joshua 24:2

And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Your fathers lived of old beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.

1 Peter 4:3

Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.