Galatians 4:8

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Summary

Galatians 4:8

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

When

Ye did

General references

Jeremiah 16:20

Bible References

When

And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go.

Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.

He was in the world, the world which came into being through him, but the world had no knowledge of him.

For when I came by, I was looking at the things to which you give worship, and I saw an altar with this writing on it, TO THE GOD OF WHOM THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE. Now, what you, without knowledge, give worship to, I make clear to you.

And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.

For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:

See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

Ye did

And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.

Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.

And they gave the name of Jupiter to Barnabas, and to Paul that of Mercury, because he was the chief talker.

If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?

You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.

For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

General references

Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?