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Galatians 4:8

James Moffatt - New Testament

In those days, when you were ignorant of God, you were in servitude to gods who are really no gods at all;

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Well then, with regard to food that has been offered to idols, I am quite aware that 'there is no such thing as an idol in the world' and that 'there is only the one God.'

in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God —

People tell us of their own accord about the visit we paid to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and a real God

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message.

their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them —

You know when you were pagans, how your impulses led you to dumb idols;

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

Yes, as they disdained to acknowledge God any longer, God has given them up to a reprobate instinct, for the perpetration of what is improper,

Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul Hermes, since he was the chief spokesman.

he entered the world — the world which existed through him — yet the world did not recognize him;

they have exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the semblance of the likeness of mortal man, of birds, of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

So with us. When we were under age, we lived under the thraldom of the Elemental spirits of the world;




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