13 Bible Verses about Nations Described

For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;

And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.