11 Bible Verses about Pagans
Most Relevant Verses
But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
And if you salute your brethren only, in what do you excel? Do not even the publicans so?
For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
For all these things the nations of the world seek after; but your Father knows that you have need of these things.
But if he refuse to hear them, tell it to the church; and if he also refuse to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen man and a publican.
You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to those dumb idols, as you might be led.
Neither be you idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written: Tho people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to engage in idolatrous sport.
But I say, that the things which the Gen tiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.
For the time past of our life should be enough for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, while we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinkings, and unlawful idolatries.
It is generally reported that there is lewdness among you; and such lewdness as is not even mentioned among the Gentiles that a certain one has his father's wife.
maintaining an honorable mode of life am one the Gentiles, that, inasmuch as they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, on account of your good works which they witness, glorify God in the day of visitation.