1 Corinthians 12:2
You know that there was a time when you were Gentiles, going astray after idols that could not speak, just as you happened to be led.
1 Thessalonians 1:9
Indeed, in speaking about us, the people themselves tell of the reception you gave us, and how, turning to God from your idols, you became servants of the true and living God,
1 Peter 4:3
Surely in the past you have spent time enough living as the Gentiles delight to live. For your path has lain among scenes of debauchery, licentiousness, drunkenness, revelry, hard-drinking, and profane idolatry.
1 Corinthians 6:11
Such some of you used to be; but you washed yourselves clean. You became Christ's People! you were pronounced righteous through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God!
Ephesians 2:11-12
Remember, therefore, that you were once Gentiles yourselves, as your bodies showed; you were called 'The Uncircumcised' by those who were called 'The Circumcised'--circumcised only by the hand of man!
Matthew 15:14
Let them be; they are but blind guides; and, if one blind man guides another, both of them will fall into a ditch."
Galatians 4:8
Yet formerly, in your ignorance of God, you became slaves to 'gods' which were no gods.
Ephesians 4:17-18
This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I say to you and urge upon you: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live,
Titus 3:3
There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.
1 Peter 1:18
For you know that it was not by perishable things, such as silver and gold, that you were Ransomed from the aimless way of living which was handed down to you from your ancestors,