11 Bible Verses about Pagans

Do not pray by idle rote like pagans, for they suppose they will be heard the more they say;

and if you only salute your friends, what is special about that? do not the very pagans do as much?

(pagans make all that their aim in life) for your heavenly Father knows quite well you need all that.

pagans make food and drink their aim in life, but your Father knows quite well you need that;

If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.

You know when you were pagans, how your impulses led you to dumb idols;

And you must not be idolaters, like some of them; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to make sport.

No, what I imply is that anything people sacrifice is sacrificed to daemons, not to God. And I do not want you to participate in daemons!

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality such as is unknown even among pagans ??that a man has taken his father's wife!

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.