Galatians 4:8

Do Not Be Enslaved Again

⁷ So that thou are no longer a bondman but a son, and if a son, then an heir through Christ. ⁸ But of course not knowing God then, ye were in bondage to those in nature who are not gods, ⁹ but now knowing God, but rather being known by God, how is it ye turn again to the weak and destitute elements to which ye desire again to be in bondage anew?

In Those Days

Knowledge of God

True God

Former Time

O God

No

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

1 Corinthians 8:4

Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good-news of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Chronicles 13:9

Have ye not driven out the priests of LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for you after the manner of the peoples of [other] lands? So that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven r

Isaiah 37:19

and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.

Ephesians 2:11-12

Remember therefore that once ye, the Gentiles in flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision (in flesh, made by hands),

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and TRUE God,

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh said, Who is LORD, that I should hearken to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.

Joshua 24:2

And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says LORD, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.

Joshua 24:15

And if it seems evil to you to serve LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell. But as for me and my hou

Psalm 115:4-8

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

Psalm 135:15-18

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

Isaiah 44:9-20

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Jeremiah 10:3-16

For the customs of the peoples are vanity. For [a man] cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name. For they have devoured Jacob. Yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, and the world knew him not.

Acts 14:12

And they actually called Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the man who led the word.

Acts 17:23

For, passing through and examining your religious objects, I also found an altar on which had been engraved, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye worship unknowingly, him I proclaim to you.

Acts 17:29-30

Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not think the Divine to be like gold, or silver, or stone handiwork of the skill and thought of man.

Romans 1:23

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed things, and creeping things.

Romans 1:28

And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

What therefore do I say, that an idol is anything, or that a sacrifice to an idol is anything?

1 Corinthians 12:2

Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led.

Ephesians 4:18

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

1 Peter 4:3

For enough time of life has past for you to accomplish the will of the Gentiles, having gone in debaucheries, lusts, excesses of wine, revelings, drinking parties, and lawless idolatries.

1 John 3:1

Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him.