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

But Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover, I will not let Israel go."

Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To the unknown god.'What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands--

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Ye did

And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one."

What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.

For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

General references

Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!"