Galatians 4:8 (KJV) - Howbeit then, when ye knew not God,...

2 Chronicles 13:9

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Have ye not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

Civil War against Jeroboam

Civil War

Isaiah 37:19

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And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Hezekiah’s Prayer

Jeremiah 2:11

KJV GOD

Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

Israel Has Forsaken God

Jeremiah 5:7

KJV GOD

¶ How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

No One Is Just

Jeremiah 16:20

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Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?

God Will Restore Israel

1 Corinthians 1:21

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For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

The Message of the Cross

1 Corinthians 8:4

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As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

Food Sacrificed to Idols

1 Corinthians 10:20

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But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

Flee from Idolatry

Galatians 4:3

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Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

Sons and Heirs

Ephesians 2:12

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That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

One in Christ

1 Thessalonians 4:5

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Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Living to Please God

2 Thessalonians 1:8

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In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Galatians 4:8

Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

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