Galatians 4:8
Yet formerly, in your ignorance of God, you became slaves to 'gods' which were no gods.
1 Corinthians 1:21
For since the world, in God's wisdom, did not by its philosophy learn to know God, God saw fit, by the 'folly' of our proclamation, to save those who believe in Christ!
1 Thessalonians 4:5
And not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God;
1 Corinthians 8:4
With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols-we are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
Then he will 'inflict punishment upon those who refuse to know God, and upon those who turn a deaf ear' to the Good News of Jesus, our Lord.
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!
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,
John 1:10
He was in the world; and through him the world came into being--yet the world did not know him.
Acts 14:12
So they called Barnabas 'Zeus,' and Paul 'Hermes,' because he took the lead in speaking;
Acts 17:23
For as I was going about, looking at your sacred shrines, I came upon an altar with this inscription--'To an Unknown God.' What, therefore, you worship in ignorance, that I am now proclaiming to you.
Acts 17:29-30
Therefore, as the offspring of God, we must not think that the Deity has any resemblance to anything made of gold, or silver, or stone--a work of human art and imagination.
Romans 1:23
And they transformed the Glory of the immortal God into the likeness of mortal man, and of birds, and beasts, and reptiles.
Romans 1:28
Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.
1 Corinthians 10:19-20
What do I mean? you ask. Than an offering made to an idol, or the idol itself, is anything?
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.
Ephesians 4:18
With their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the Life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts.
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 John 3:1
Think what love the Father has shown us in allowing us to be called 'Children of God'; as indeed we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it has not learned to know him.