Have you not thrown out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made priests to yourselves like the peoples of the lands? Whoever comes to fill his hand with a bull, a son of the herd, and seven rams, even he becomes a priest to no-gods.
Pour out Your fury on the nations who do not know You, and on the families who do not call on Your name. For they have eaten up Jacob. Yea, they ate him up and have finished him, and they have made his dwelling place desolate.
Why should I pardon you for this? Your sons have forsaken Me and have sworn by No-gods. And I adjured them, and they committed adultery and gathered themselves by troops.at a house of one doing adultery.
for passing through and looking up at the objects of your worship, I also found an altar on which had been written, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, not knowing Him whom you worship, I proclaim this One to you.
and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into a likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and fourfooted animals, and creeping things.
having been darkened in the intellect, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the hardness of their heart,
For they themselves report about us what kind of entrance we have to you, and how you had turned to God from the idols, to be a slave to the true and living God,
in flaming fire giving full vengeance to the ones not knowing God, and to the ones not obeying the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, Isa. 66:15; Jer. 10:25
And if it seems evil in your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve, whether the gods whom your fathers served Beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
And Joshua said to all the people, So says Jehovah the God of Israel, Your fathers have in the past lived Beyond the River (Terah the father of Abraham and father of Nahor) and they served other gods.
For the time of life having passed is sufficient for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in wantonness, lusts, drunkennesses, revelries, carousings, and lawless idolatries;
See what manner of love the Father has given us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.