Galatians 4:8

Weymouth NT

But at one time, you Gentiles, having no knowledge of God, were slaves to gods which in reality do not exist.

Cross References

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world came into existence through Him, and the world did not recognize Him.

Acts 14:12

They called Barnabas `Zeus,' and Paul, as being the principal speaker, `Hermes.'

Acts 17:23

For as I passed along and observed the things you worship, I found also an altar bearing the inscription, `TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' »The Being, therefore, whom you, without knowing Him, revere, Him I now proclaim to you.

Romans 1:23

and, instead of worshipping the imperishable God, they worshipped images resembling perishable man or resembling birds or beasts or reptiles.

Romans 1:28

And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For after the world by its wisdom –as God in His wisdom had ordained– had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were heathens you went astray after dumb idols, wherever you happened to be led.

1 Corinthians 8:4

As to eating things which have been sacrificed to idols, we are fully aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.

Galatians 4:3

So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world's rudimentary notions, and were enslaved.

Ephesians 4:18

with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance which is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their moral nature, no share in the Life which God gives.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For when others speak of us they report the reception we had from you, and how you turned from your idols to God, to be bondservants of the true and ever-living God,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;

2 Thessalonians 1:8

He will come in flames of fire to take vengeance on those who have no knowledge of God, and do not obey the Good News as to Jesus, our Lord.

1 Peter 4:3

For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in– pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.

1 John 3:1

See what marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon us –that we should be called God's children: and that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us– because it has not known Him.