Galatians 4:8

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

I said to you, “I am Yahweh your God. You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not listened to my voice.’ ”

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.

You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.

They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak. They must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”

Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to Yahweh.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.

They have mouths, but they don’t speak. They have eyes, but they don’t see.

I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein.”

Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured. All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plunder. I will make all who prey on you become prey.

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

He will also carry their gods, with their molten images, and with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, captive into Egypt. He will refrain some years from the king of the north.

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

Haven’t you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves according to the ways of the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of those who are no gods.

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.

Should a man make to himself gods which yet are no gods?”

For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.

Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

They called Barnabas “Jupiter”, and Paul “Mercury”, because he was the chief speaker.

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.

You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords”;

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.