Galatians 4:8 Cross References

Galatians 4:8

8: Before you Gentiles knew God, you were slaves to so-called gods that do not even exist.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

  1. not in lustful passion as the pagans do, in their ignorance of God and his ways.

1 Corinthians 8:4

  1. So now, what about it? Should we eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that there is only one God and no other.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

  1. in flaming fire, bringing judgment on those who don't know God and on those who refuse to obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus.

Ephesians 2:11

  1. Don't forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders by birth. You were called "the uncircumcised ones" by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts.
  2. In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from God's people, Israel, and you did not know the promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.

Isaiah 37:19

  1. And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all--only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.

1 Corinthians 10:19

  1. What am I trying to say? Am I saying that the idols to whom the pagans bring sacrifices are real gods and that these sacrifices are of some value?
  2. No, not at all. What I am saying is that these sacrifices are offered to demons, not to God. And I don't want any of you to be partners with demons.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

  1. for they themselves keep talking about the wonderful welcome you gave us and how you turned away from idols to serve the true and living God.

1 Corinthians 1:21

  1. Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never find him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save all who believe.

1 Peter 4:3

  1. You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy--their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.

2 Chronicles 13:9

  1. And you have chased away the priests of the LORD and the Levites and have appointed your own priests, just like the pagan nations. You let anyone become a priest these days! Whoever comes to be dedicated with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of these so-called gods of yours!

Isaiah 44:9

  1. How foolish are those who manufacture idols to be their gods. These highly valued objects are really worthless. They themselves are witnesses that this is so, for their idols neither see nor know. No wonder those who worship them are put to shame.
  2. Who but a fool would make his own god--an idol that cannot help him one bit!
  3. All who worship idols will stand before the LORD in shame, along with all these craftsmen--mere humans--who claim they can make a god. Together they will stand in terror and shame.
  4. The blacksmith stands at his forge to make a sharp tool, pounding and shaping it with all his might. His work makes him hungry and thirsty, weak and faint.
  5. Then the wood-carver measures and marks out a block of wood, takes the tool, and carves the figure of a man. Now he has a wonderful idol that cannot even move from where it is placed!

Joshua 24:2

  1. Joshua said to the people, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Your ancestors, including Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River, and they worshiped other gods.

1 Corinthians 12:2

  1. You know that when you were still pagans you were led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols.

Joshua 24:15

  1. But if you are unwilling to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD."

Ephesians 4:18

  1. Their closed minds are full of darkness; they are far away from the life of God because they have shut their minds and hardened their hearts against him.

Jeremiah 10:3

  1. Their ways are futile and foolish. They cut down a tree and carve an idol.
  2. They decorate it with gold and silver and then fasten it securely with hammer and nails so it won't fall over.
  3. There stands their god like a helpless scarecrow in a garden! It cannot speak, and it needs to be carried because it cannot walk. Do not be afraid of such gods, for they can neither harm you nor do you any good."
  4. LORD, there is no one like you! For you are great, and your name is full of power.
  5. Who would not fear you, O King of nations? That title belongs to you alone! Among all the wise people of the earth and in all the kingdoms of the world, there is no one like you.

Jeremiah 10:25

  1. Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to recognize you--on nations that do not call upon your name. For they have utterly devoured your people Israel, making the land a desolate wilderness.

Exodus 5:2

  1. "Is that so?" retorted Pharaoh. "And who is the LORD that I should listen to him and let Israel go? I don't know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go."

Acts 17:23

  1. for as I was walking along I saw your many altars. And one of them had this inscription on it--'To an Unknown God.' You have been worshiping him without knowing who he is, and now I wish to tell you about him.

Acts 17:29

  1. And since this is true, we shouldn't think of God as an idol designed by craftsmen from gold or silver or stone.
  2. God overlooked people's former ignorance about these things, but now he commands everyone everywhere to turn away from idols and turn to him.

1 John 3:1

  1. See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for he allows us to be called his children, and we really are! But the people who belong to this world don't know God, so they don't understand that we are his children.

Psalms 115:4

  1. Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
  2. They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
  3. They cannot hear with their ears, or smell with their noses,
  4. or feel with their hands, or walk with their feet, or utter sounds with their throats!
  5. And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.

Jeremiah 2:11

  1. Has any nation ever exchanged its gods for another god, even though its gods are nothing? Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols!

Psalms 135:15

  1. Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
  2. They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
  3. They cannot hear with their ears or smell with their noses.
  4. And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.

John 1:10

  1. But although the world was made through him, the world didn't recognize him when he came.

Acts 14:12

  1. They decided that Barnabas was the Greek god Zeus and that Paul, because he was the chief speaker, was Hermes.

Romans 1:28

  1. When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done.

Romans 1:23

  1. And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people, or birds and animals and snakes.
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