Galatians 4:8

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

2 Chronicles 13:9

And you have cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, as well as the Levites. And like all the peoples of the lands, you have made priests for yourselves. Anyone who is willing to come and perform the ritual by his hand, with a bull from the herd and with seven rams, is made a priest of those who are not gods.

Exodus 5:2

But he responded: "Who is the Lord, that I should listen to his voice and release Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not release Israel."

Isaiah 37:19

And they have cast their gods into the fire. For these were not gods, but the works of men's hands, of wood and of stone. And they broke them into pieces.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out your indignation upon the nations that have not known you, and upon the provinces that have not invoked your name. For they have fed upon Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and they have utterly destroyed his honor.

Jeremiah 16:20

How can man make gods for himself, though these are not gods?"

Jeremiah 2:11

See if a nation has ever changed their gods, though certainly those are not gods. Yet truly, my people have exchanged their glory for an idol.

Jeremiah 5:7

"Over which things am I able to be merciful to you? Your sons have forsaken me, and they swear by those who are not gods. I gave them everything, and they committed adultery, and they indulged themselves in the house of the harlot.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not recognize him.

Acts 14:12

Also, the priest of Jupiter, who was outside the city, in front of the gate, bringing in oxen and garlands, was willing to offer sacrifice with the people.

Acts 17:23

For as I was passing by and noticing your idols, I also found an altar, on which was written: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this is what I am preaching to you:

Romans 1:23

And they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of four-legged beasts, and of serpents.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not prove to have God by knowledge, God handed them over to a morally depraved way of thinking, so that they might do those things which are not fitting:

1 Corinthians 1:21

For the world did not know God through wisdom, and so, in the wisdom of God, it pleased God to accomplish the salvation of believers, through the foolishness of our preaching.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were Gentiles, you approached mute idols, doing what you were led to do.

1 Corinthians 8:4

But as to the foods that are immolated to idols, we know that an idol in the world is nothing, and that no one is God, except One.

Galatians 4:3

So also we, when we were children, were subservient to the influences of the world.

Ephesians 4:18

having their intellect obscured, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is within them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For others are reporting among us of the kind of acceptance we had among you, and how you were converted from idols to God, to the service of the living and true God,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,

2 Thessalonians 1:8

granting vindication, by a flame of fire, against those who do not know God and who are not obedient to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Joshua 24:15

But if it seems evil to you that you would serve the Lord, a choice is given to you. Choose today what pleases you, and whom you ought to serve above all else, either the gods that your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

Joshua 24:2

And he spoke to the people in this way: "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: 'Your fathers lived, in the beginning, across the river: Terah, the father of Abraham, and Nahor. And they served strange gods.

1 Peter 4:3

For the time that has passed is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, those who have walked in luxuries, lusts, intoxication, feasting, drinking, and the illicit worship of idols.

1 John 3:1

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, the sons of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him.