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 will say, Who is Jehovah, whose voice I shall hear to send forth Israel? I knew not Jehovah, and also I shall not send Israel forth.

Pour out thy wrath upon the nations which knew thee not, and upon the families that called not upon thy name: for they ate up Jacob and consumed him, and they will finish him, and they made desolate his dwelling.

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

For having passed by, and beholding your venerations, I found also an altar upon which was inscribed, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom not knowing therefore ye reverence, him I announce to you.

And as they chose not to have God in knowledge, God delivered them to an adulterated purpose, to do things not fitting;

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, God was contented by the foolishness of proclaiming to save them believing.

Wherefore remember, that ye then the nations in the flesh, being reckoned Uncircumcision by the Circumcision in the flesh reckoned made by hands;

Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

Not in the passion of eager desire, as also the nations not knowing God:

In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ:

See ye, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: for this the world knows us not, for it knew him not.

Ye did

And Joshua will say to all the people, So said Jehovah the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt beyond the river from everlasting time, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor and they will serve other gods.

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

The images of the nation are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.

They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed.

For the laws of the peoples, this vanity: for they cut down a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

And truly they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, since he was leader of the word.

Being therefore the posterity of God, we ought not to think gold, or silver, or stone, an engraving of art, or meditation of man, the divinity to be like.

And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of creeping things, and of quadrupeds.

Concerning food therefore of sacrifices to idols, we know that an idol nothing in the world, and that none other God but one.

What do I say therefore? that an idol is any thing? or that what is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?

Ye know that ye were the nations, to dumb idols, as ye were led, being carried away.

For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;

For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

General references

Shall man make to himself gods, and they not gods?