11 Bible Verses about Pagans
Most Relevant Verses
"While praying do not say the same words over and over again, as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that by their much speaking they will gain attention.
"Even the tax-gatherers do that, do they not? And if you show courtesy to your brother only, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do that, do they not?
"For all these are things that the Gentiles are eagerly seeking; for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of them all.
"For all these things the nations of the world are seeking; but your Father knows that you have need of these things.
"but if he will not heed the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.
You know that when you were heathen you went astray after dumb idols, wherever he be led.
And you must not be idolaters like some of them. as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, And they rose up for idol dances.
On the contrary, what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have communion with demons.
For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.
It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife!
Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation.