11 Bible Verses about Pagans
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And whenever you pray, you must not keep on repeating set phrases, as the heathen do, for they suppose that they will be heard in accordance with the length of their prayers,
And if you say 'Good morning' to your brothers only, what more than others are you doing?
For the heathen are greedily pursuing all such things; and surely your heavenly Father well knows that you need them all.
For all these are the very things the nations of the world are greedily trying to get, and surely your Father well knows that you need them.
And if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a heathen and as a tax-collector.
You know that when you were heathen you were in the habit of going off, wherever you might be led, after idols that could not speak.
Now stop being idolaters, as some of them were, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance."
I mean that what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be in fellowship with demons.
For the time that is past is enough for you to have accomplished what the heathen like to do, leading lives that are steeped in sensuality, lustful desires, drunkenness, carousing, revelry, dissipation, and idolatry that leads to lawlessness,
A case of immorality is reported as actually existing among you, an immorality unheard of even among the heathen that a man cohabits with his father's wife.
Keep on living upright lives among the heathen, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, by what they see of your good deeds they may come to praise God on the judgment day.