Galatians 4:8

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Galatians 4:8

Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

When

Ye did

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When

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

For as I was passing through, and looking attentively at the objects of your worship, I dis covered also an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him I make known to you.

And as they refused to acknowledge God, God delivered them up to an undiscerning mind, to do detestable things;

For, since in the wisdom of God, the world, by its wisdom, knew not God, it has pleased God, through the foolishness of what is preached, to save those who believe.

For which reason, remember that you were formerly Gen tiles, by natural descent, and that you are called Uncircumcision by the Circumcision; so called, from a mark made in the flesh by hands;

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;

in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those who know not God, and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Behold, how great love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the children of God! For this reason, the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

Ye did

And they called Barnabas, Jupiter, and Paul, Mercury, for he was the chief speaker.

Therefore, being the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhood is like gold, or silver, or stone, sculptured by art and the device of man.

and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

What, then, do I say? That an idol is any thing? or, that what is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?

You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to those dumb idols, as you might be led.

For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

For the time past of our life should be enough for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, while we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinkings, and unlawful idolatries.