Galatians 4:8

Modern English Version

Previously, when you did not know God, you served those who by nature are not gods.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 13:9

Have you all not driven out the priests of the Lord, even the Levites and sons of Aaron, and made for yourselves priests from the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to be dedicated and has in his hand a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest to what is not a god.

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.”

Isaiah 37:19

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore, they have destroyed them.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out Your fury upon the nations that do not know You and upon the families that do not call on Your name; for they have eaten up Jacob and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

Jeremiah 16:20

Shall a man make gods for himself, which are not gods?

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed their gods, though they are not gods? But My people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Jeremiah 5:7

How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by those who are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, then they committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world was created through Him, yet the world did not know Him.

Acts 14:12

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the main speaker.

Acts 17:23

For as I passed by and looked up at your objects of worship, I found an altar with this inscription: to the unknown god. Therefore, whom you worship as unknown, Him I proclaim to you.

Romans 1:23

They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, birds, four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not proper.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to mute idols, however you were led.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So concerning the eating of foods that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

Galatians 4:3

So when we were children, we were in bondage to the elements of the world.

Ephesians 4:18

having their understanding darkened, excluded from the life of God through the ignorance that is within them, due to the hardness of their hearts.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves declare how we were received by you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in lustful passion, even as the Gentiles who do not know God,

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Joshua 24:15

If it is displeasing to you to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve, if it should be the gods your fathers served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites’ land where you are now living. Yet as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Joshua 24:2

Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Long ago your fathers—Terah father of Abraham and Nahor —lived beyond the Euphrates and served other gods.

1 Peter 4:3

For in earlier times of our lives it may have sufficed us to do what the Gentiles like to do, when we walked in immorality: lusts, drunkenness, carousing, debauchery, and abominable idolatries.

1 John 3:1

Consider how much love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.