11 Bible Verses about Pagans

When you pray, be not verbose, as the heathen are: for they think they shall be heard for their loquaciousness.

and if ye salute your brethren only, what mighty matter is that? do not even the heathens do the same?

things which the Gentiles are so thoughtful about, and which your heavenly Father knows that you want.

for it is enough that the Gentiles are so concern'd about these things: as for you, your father is acquainted with all your wants.

if he does not relent, tell it to the church: but if he is not moved by the church, show him no more regard than you would to a pagan or a publican.

when you were Gentiles, you know how you were seduced by your leaders, to the worship of dumb idols.

be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

no, but that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not have you partake of the sacrifices of demons.

for the time past of your lives may suffice, to have liv'd in conformity to the Gentile customs, in impurity, licentiousness, sottishness, in dissolute festivals, and the criminal rites of idolaters.

we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife.

souls. Let your behaviour among the Gentiles be virtuous, that instead of inveighing against you as vicious, they may observe your honest behaviour,