Galatians 4:8

Do Not Be Enslaved Again

⁷ So you are no longer slaves but a son. And as a son God has made you an heir. ⁸ However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods. ⁹ Now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and poor fundamental things? Do you want to slave for them all over again?

In Those Days

Knowledge of God

True God

Former Time

O God

No

1 Corinthians 1:21

This is the wisdom of God that the world through its wisdom did not come to know God. God was well pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Concerning the eating of food offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

They will render vengeance to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus.

2 Chronicles 13:9

You drove out Jehovah's priests! You evicted the descendants of Aaron and the Levites. In their place you appointed priests in the same way that other nations do. Anybody who comes along with a bull or seven sheep can get himself consecrated as a priest of those so-called gods of yours.

Isaiah 37:19

They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them. But they were not gods! They were only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.

Ephesians 2:11-12

Remember that you were once people of the nations in the flesh. You are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision, in the flesh, made by human hands.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

All those people speak about how you received us when we visited you, and how you turned away from idols to God, to serve the true and living God,

Exodus 5:2

But Pharaoh responded: Who is Jehovah, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, and besides, I will not let Israel go.

Joshua 24:2

Joshua said to all the people: This is what Jehovah, the God of Israel says: 'Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods. One of those ancestors was Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor.

Joshua 24:15

If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve Jehovah.'

Psalm 115:4-8

Their idols are made of silver and gold. Human hands made them.

Psalm 135:15-18

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

Isaiah 44:9-20

All who make idols are nothing. The things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind. They are shamefully ignorant.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has any nation ever exchanged gods? Their gods are not really gods. Yet my people have exchanged their glory for something that does not help them.

Jeremiah 10:3-16

The people's customs are erroneous and empty. It is wood cut from the forest. It is the work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out your fury on the nations who do not know you and on people who do not worship you. They have devoured the descendants of Jacob. They have devoured them completely. They have destroyed their homes.

John 1:10

The world was made through him. He was in the world and the world did not recognize him.

Acts 14:12

They called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.

Acts 17:23

As I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: To An Unknown God. What you worship as unknown, this I will proclaim to you.

Acts 17:29-30

Being then the offspring of God, we should not think that the divine being is like gold, or silver, or stone, a device made by man's design or skill.

Romans 1:23

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

Romans 1:28

They did not like to retain God in their knowledge, so God gave them over to a reprobate (depraved) mind, to do things that are not fitting.

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

What do I mean? That the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that you were of the nations, carried away and led by mute idols.

Ephesians 4:18

They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.

1 Peter 4:3

You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods).

1 John 3:1

Observe the love the Father gave to us that we should be called the children of God. That is what we are! For this reason the world does not know us. This is because it did not know him.