1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God.
Romans 1:26
For this cause God gave them up to vile affections for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature.
Galatians 4:8
However at that time, you did not know God. You were in bondage to things that are really not gods at all.
Matthew 6:32
All people go in search of these things. Your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Luke 12:30
For the people of the nations seek after these things. Your Father knows that you need them.
Acts 17:23
As I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: To An Unknown God. What you worship as unknown, this I will proclaim to you.
Acts 17:30-31
God overlooked the times of ignorance; but now he commands men everywhere to repent.
Romans 1:24
God gave them up to uncleanness because of the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.
Romans 1:28
They did not like to retain God in their knowledge, so God gave them over to a reprobate (depraved) mind, to do things that are not fitting.
1 Corinthians 1:21
This is the wisdom of God that the world through its wisdom did not come to know God. God was well pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Wake up to righteousness and do not sin. Some do not have knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Ephesians 2:12
You were separate from Christ at that time, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel. You were strangers from the covenants of the promise. You had no hope and were without God in the world.
Ephesians 4:17-19
This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking).
Colossians 3:5
Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
They will render vengeance to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus.
1 Peter 4:3
You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods).