Galatians 4:8

The Scriptures 2009

But then, indeed, not knowing Elohim, you served those which by nature are not mighty ones.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 13:9

“Have you not thrown out the priests of יהוה, the sons of Aharon, and the Lĕwites, and made for yourselves priests, like the peoples of the lands, so that whoever comes to ordain himself with a young bull and seven rams then becomes a priest of what are not mighty ones?

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh said, “Who is יהוה, that I should obey His voice to let Yisra’ĕl go? I do not know יהוה, nor am I going to let Yisra’ĕl go.”

Isaiah 37:19

and have put their mighty ones into the fire, for they were not mighty ones, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. And they destroyed them.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out Your wrath on the nations who do not know You, and on the tribes who do not call on Your Name. For they have eaten up Ya‛aqoḇ, devoured him and consumed him, and laid waste his home.

Jeremiah 16:20

Would a man make mighty ones for himself, which are not mighty ones?

Jeremiah 2:11

“Has a nation changed its mighty ones, which are not mighty ones? But My people have changed My esteem for that which does not profit.

Jeremiah 5:7

“Why should I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by those that are not mighty ones. When I had filled them up, they then committed adultery and they thronged to the house of a whore.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world came to be through Him, and the world did not know Him.

Acts 14:12

And they called Barnaḇa Zeus, and Sha’ul Hermes, since he was the chief speaker.

Acts 17:23

“For passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found a slaughter-place with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN MIGHTY ONE. Not knowing then whom you worship, I make Him known to you:

Romans 1:23

and changed the esteem of the incorruptible Elohim into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds and of four-footed beasts and of reptiles.

Romans 1:28

And even as they did not think it worthwhile to possess the knowledge of Elohim, Elohim gave them over to a worthless mind, to do what is improper,

1 Corinthians 1:21

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

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that you were nations, led away to the dumb idols, even as you might be led.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So then, concerning the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol is no matter at all in the world, and that there is no other Elohim but one.

Galatians 4:3

So we also, when we were children, were under the elementary matters of the world, being enslaved.

Ephesians 4:18

having been darkened in their understanding, having been estranged from the life of Elohim, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves report what kind of reception we had with you, and how you turned to Elohim from idols, to serve the living and true Elohim,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in passion of lust, like the nations who do not know Elohim,

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know Elohim, and on those who do not obey the Good News of our Master יהושע Messiah,

Joshua 24:15

“And if it seems evil in your eyes to serve יהוה, choose for yourselves this day whom you are going to serve, whether the mighty ones which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the mighty ones of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But I and my house, we serve יהוה.”

Joshua 24:2

And Yehoshua said to all the people, “Thus said יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Long ago your fathers dwelt beyond the River – Teraḥ, the father of Aḇraham and the father of Naḥor. And they served other mighty ones.

1 Peter 4:3

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the desire of the nations, having walked in indecencies, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, wild parties, and abominable idolatries,

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of Elohim! For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.