Galatians 4:8

Tree of Life Version

But at that time, when you did not know God, you served those who by nature are not gods at all.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 13:9

Have you not banished the kohanim of Adonai, the sons of Aaron, as well as the Levites, and then appointed your own priests—just as the peoples of the lands do? Can whoever comes to consecrate himself with a bull from a young cow and seven rams become a priest—for gods of nothing?

Exodus 5:2

But Pharaoh said, “Who is Adonai, that I should listen to His voice and let Israel go? I do not know Adonai, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”

Isaiah 37:19

and have cast their gods into the fire—for they were not gods, but the work of human hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You and on the families that do not call on Your Name. For they have devoured Jacob, devoured and consumed him, and destroyed his homeland.

Jeremiah 16:20

Will man make gods for himself? Yet they are not gods.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed its gods— even though they are not gods? Yet My people have exchanged their glory for worthless things.

Jeremiah 5:7

“Why therefore should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by those who are not gods. Even though I fed them well, they committed adultery and thronged to the prostitute houses.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world was made through Him; but the world did not know Him.

Acts 14:12

And they began calling Barnabas “Zeus” and Paul “Hermes” (because he was the main speaker).

Acts 17:23

For while I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an Unknown God.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing, this I proclaim to you.

Romans 1:23

They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image in the form of mortal man and birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

Romans 1:28

And just as they did not see fit to recognize God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what is not fitting.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For seeing that—in God’s wisdom—the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased—through the foolishness of the message proclaimed—to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed by idols that cannot speak, and you got led astray.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Therefore concerning the eating of idol sacrifices, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Galatians 4:3

So also, when we were underage, we were subservient to the basic principles of the world.

Ephesians 4:18

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance in them due to the hardness of their heart.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves bring news about what kind of welcome we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passion of lust like the pagans who do not know God;

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in flaming fire, He will command judgment on those who do not know God and do not heed the Good News of our Lord Yeshua.

Joshua 24:15

If it seems bad to you to worship Adonai, then choose for yourselves today whom you will serve—whether the gods that your fathers worshipped that were beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will worship Adonai!”

Joshua 24:2

Then Joshua said to all the people: “Thus says Adonai, God of Israel: ‘From ancient times your fathers—Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor—lived beyond the River and worshipped other gods.

1 Peter 4:3

For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to carry out the desire of the pagans—living in indecency, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, wild parties, and lawless idolatries.

1 John 3:1

See how glorious a love the Father has given us, that we should be called God’s children—and so we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.