Galatians 4:8

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When you didn’t know God, you were slaves to things which are really not gods at all.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 13:9

You forced out the Lord’s priests who were Aaron’s descendants, and you forced out the Levites so that you could appoint your own priests, as the people in foreign countries do. Anyone who has a young bull and seven rams can be ordained as a priest of nonexistent gods.

Exodus 5:2

Pharaoh asked, “Who is the Lord? Why should I obey him and let Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, and I won’t let Israel go.”

Isaiah 37:19

They have thrown the gods from these countries into fires because these gods aren’t real gods. They’re only wooden and stone statues made by human hands. So the Assyrians have destroyed them.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out your fury on the nations who don’t know you and on people who don’t worship you. They have devoured the descendants of Jacob. They have devoured them completely. They have destroyed their homes.

Jeremiah 16:20

“People can’t make gods for themselves. They aren’t really gods.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has any nation ever exchanged gods? (Their gods aren’t really gods.) Yet, my people have exchanged their Glory for something that doesn’t help them.

Jeremiah 5:7

“Why should I forgive you? Your children abandoned me. They took godless oaths. They committed adultery, even though I satisfied their needs. They traveled in crowds to the houses of prostitutes.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world came into existence through him. Yet, the world didn’t recognize him.

Acts 14:12

They addressed Barnabas as Zeus and Paul as Hermes because Paul did most of the talking.

Acts 17:23

As I was going through your city and looking closely at the objects you worship, I noticed an altar with this written on it: ‘To an unknown god.’ I’m telling you about the unknown god you worship.

Romans 1:23

They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for statues that looked like mortal humans, birds, animals, and snakes.

Romans 1:28

And because they thought it was worthless to acknowledge God, God allowed their own immoral minds to control them. So they do these indecent things.

1 Corinthians 1:21

The world with its wisdom was unable to recognize God in terms of his own wisdom. So God decided to use the nonsense of the Good News we speak to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were unbelievers, every time you were led to worship false gods you were worshiping gods who couldn’t even speak.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Now about eating food that was offered to false gods: We know that the false gods in this world don’t really exist and that no god exists except the one God.

Galatians 4:3

It was the same way with us. When we were children, we were slaves to the principles of this world.

Ephesians 4:18

They can’t understand because they are in the dark. They are excluded from the life that God approves of because of their ignorance and stubbornness.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

They talk about how you welcomed us when we arrived. They even report how you turned away from false gods to serve the real, living God

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passionate, lustful way of people who don’t know God.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

He will take revenge on those who refuse to acknowledge God and on those who refuse to respond to the Good News about our Lord Jesus.

Joshua 24:15

But if you don’t want to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Even if you choose the gods your ancestors served on the other side of the Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live, my family and I will still serve the Lord.”

Joshua 24:2

Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: Long ago your ancestors, Terah and his sons Abraham and Nahor, lived on the other side of the Euphrates River and served other gods.

1 Peter 4:3

You spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. You were promiscuous, had sinful desires, got drunk, went to wild parties, and took part in the forbidden worship of false gods.

1 John 3:1

Consider this: The Father has given us his love. He loves us so much that we are actually called God’s dear children. And that’s what we are. For this reason the world doesn’t recognize us, and it didn’t recognize him either.