11 Bible Verses about Pagans

"And when praying, do not use needless repetitions as the Gentiles do, for they expect to be listened to because of their multitude of words.

And if you salute only your near relatives, what praise is due to you? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

For all these are questions that Gentiles are always asking; but your Heavenly Father knows that you need these things--all of them.

For though the nations of the world pursue these things, as for you, your Father knows that you need them.

If he refuses to hear them, appeal to the Church; and if he refuses to hear even the Church, regard him just as you regard a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

You know that when you were heathens you went astray after dumb idols, wherever you happened to be led.

And you must not be worshippers of idols, as some of them were. For it is written, "The People sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance."

No, but that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, not to God; and I would not have you have fellowship with one another through the demons.

For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in-- pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has his father's wife!

Live honourable lives among the Gentiles, in order that, although they now speak against you as evil-doers, they may yet witness your good conduct, and may glorify God on the day of reward and retribution.