Galatians 4:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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 ye not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the peoples of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should hearken unto his voice to let Israel go? I know not 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 have destroyed them.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

Jeremiah 16:20

Shall a man make unto himself gods, which yet are no gods?

Jeremiah 2:11

Hath a nation changed their gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

Jeremiah 5:7

How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.

John 1:10

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

Acts 14:12

And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker.

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 ye worship in ignorance, this set I forth unto you.

Romans 1:23

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

Romans 1:28

And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

1 Corinthians 1:21

For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.

1 Corinthians 12:2

Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might be led.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Galatians 4:3

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles which know not God;

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:

Joshua 24:15

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Joshua 24:2

And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

1 Peter 4:3

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

1 John 3:1

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God: and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.