11 Bible Verses about Pagans

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathens do, for they think they shall be heard for their speaking much:

and if ye embrace your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not the publicans so likewise?

(things which the heathens are so inquisitive after) for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these.

for all these things the nations of the world seek after; but your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

And if he disregard them, tell it to the church: but if he disregard the church too, let him be unto thee as an heathen and a publican.

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, drawn aside after dumb idols, just as ye were led: wherefore,

And be ye not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."

No: but this I say, that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God.

For the time past of our life is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, inordinate desires, excess of wine, revellings, drunkenness, and abominable idolatries:

It is commonly reported that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not named even amongst the heathens, that one should have his father's wife.

having a good conversation among the Gentiles; that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of their visitation, on account of the good works which they behold in you.