Galatians 4:8 Earlier, before you knew God personally, you were enslaved to so-called gods that had nothing of the divine about them. But now that you know the real God—or...

4:8 MSG

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The Message - Earlier, before you knew God personally, you were enslaved to so-called gods that had nothing of the divine about them. But now that you know the real God—or rather since God knows you—how can you possibly subject yourselves again to those tin gods? For that is exactly what you do when you are intimidated into scrupulously observing all the traditions, taboos, and superstitions associated with special days and seasons and years. I am afraid that all my hard work among you has gone up in a puff of smoke!
新标点和合本 - 但从前你们不认识　神的时候，是给那些本来不是神的作奴仆；
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 但从前不认识上帝的时候，你们是给那些本来不是上帝的神明作奴隶；
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 但从前不认识　神的时候，你们是给那些本来不是　神的神明作奴隶；
当代译本 - 从前，你们不认识上帝，做那些假神的奴隶。
圣经新译本 - 从前你们不认识　神的时候，是给那些本来不是　神的作奴仆；
中文标准译本 - 从前，你们不认识神的时候，固然给那些本性上不是神的做了奴仆，
现代标点和合本 - 但从前你们不认识神的时候，是给那些本来不是神的做奴仆。
和合本（拼音版） - 但从前你们不认识上帝的时候，是给那些本来不是神的作奴仆。
New International Version - Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
New International Reader's Version - At one time you didn’t know God. You were slaves to gods that are really not gods at all.
English Standard Version - Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.
New Living Translation - Before you Gentiles knew God, you were slaves to so-called gods that do not even exist.
Christian Standard Bible - But in the past, since you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.
New American Standard Bible - However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are not gods.
New King James Version - But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.
Amplified Bible - But at that time, when you did not know [the true] God and were unacquainted with Him, you [Gentiles] were slaves to those [pagan] things which by [their very] nature were not and could not be gods at all.
American Standard Version - Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:
King James Version - Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
New English Translation - Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.
World English Bible - However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
新標點和合本 - 但從前你們不認識神的時候，是給那些本來不是神的作奴僕；
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 但從前不認識上帝的時候，你們是給那些本來不是上帝的神明作奴隸；
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 但從前不認識　神的時候，你們是給那些本來不是　神的神明作奴隸；
當代譯本 - 從前，你們不認識上帝，做那些假神的奴隸。
聖經新譯本 - 從前你們不認識　神的時候，是給那些本來不是　神的作奴僕；
呂振中譯本 - 但從前你們不認識上帝的時候，是給那些本性不是神的做奴僕。
中文標準譯本 - 從前，你們不認識神的時候，固然給那些本性上不是神的做了奴僕，
現代標點和合本 - 但從前你們不認識神的時候，是給那些本來不是神的做奴僕。
文理和合譯本 - 昔爾不識上帝、役於本非神者、
文理委辦譯本 - 昔爾不識上帝、非上帝反服事之、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 昔爾不識天主、所事之神、本非天主、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 然曩日爾未識天主、猶為偽神所奴；
Nueva Versión Internacional - Antes, cuando no conocían a Dios, ustedes eran esclavos de los que en realidad no son dioses.
현대인의 성경 - 전에 여러분이 하나님을 알지 못했을 때는 실제로 있지도 않은 신들에게 종이 되었습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Когда вы еще не знали Бога, вы были рабами существ, которые по природе своей не боги.
Восточный перевод - Когда вы ещё не знали Всевышнего, вы были рабами «богов», которые вовсе не боги.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Когда вы ещё не знали Аллаха, вы были рабами «богов», которые вовсе не боги.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Когда вы ещё не знали Всевышнего, вы были рабами «богов», которые вовсе не боги.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mais autrefois, vous ne connaissiez pas Dieu, c’est pourquoi vous serviez comme des esclaves des divinités qui, en réalité, ne sont pas des dieux.
リビングバイブル - ガラテヤの人たち。あなたがた外国人は、神を知らなかった時、実際には存在しない「神々」と呼ばれているものの奴隷でした。
Nestle Aland 28 - Ἀλλὰ τότε μὲν οὐκ εἰδότες θεὸν ἐδουλεύσατε τοῖς φύσει μὴ οὖσιν θεοῖς·
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἀλλὰ τότε μὲν οὐκ εἰδότες Θεὸν, ἐδουλεύσατε τοῖς φύσει μὴ οὖσι θεοῖς;
Nova Versão Internacional - Antes, quando vocês não conheciam a Deus, eram escravos daqueles que, por natureza, não são deuses.
Hoffnung für alle - Als ihr von Gott noch nichts wusstet, habt ihr sogenannten Göttern gedient, die in Wirklichkeit gar keine sind.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ngày trước, anh chị em không biết Đức Chúa Trời, nên đã làm nô lệ cho những thần linh giả tạo.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เมื่อก่อนท่านยังไม่รู้จักพระเจ้า ท่านเป็นทาสของผู้ซึ่งโดยสภาพแล้วไม่ใช่เทพเจ้าเลย
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - อย่างไรก็ตาม เมื่อก่อนท่านทั้งหลายยังไม่รู้จักพระเจ้า ท่านเป็นทาสของบรรดาเทพเจ้าที่ไม่ใช่พระเจ้าที่แท้จริง

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Romans 1:28 - Since they didn’t bother to acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run loose. And then all hell broke loose: rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious backstabbing. They made life hell on earth with their envy, wanton killing, bickering, and cheating. Look at them: mean-spirited, venomous, fork-tongued God-bashers. Bullies, swaggerers, insufferable windbags! They keep inventing new ways of wrecking lives. They ditch their parents when they get in the way. Stupid, slimy, cruel, cold-blooded. And it’s not as if they don’t know better. They know perfectly well they’re spitting in God’s face. And they don’t care—worse, they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best!
Acts 17:30 - “God overlooks it as long as you don’t know any better—but that time is past. The unknown is now known, and he’s calling for a radical life-change. He has set a day when the entire human race will be judged and everything set right. And he has already appointed the judge, confirming him before everyone by raising him from the dead.”
1 John 3:1 - What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it—we’re called children of God! That’s who we really are. But that’s also why the world doesn’t recognize us or take us seriously, because it has no idea who he is or what he’s up to.
Jeremiah 10:6 - All this is nothing compared to you, O God. You’re wondrously great, famously great. Who can fail to be impressed by you, King of the nations? It’s your very nature to be worshiped! Look far and wide among the elite of the nations. The best they can come up with is nothing compared to you. Stupidly, they line them up—a lineup of sticks, good for nothing but making smoke. Gilded with silver foil from Tarshish, covered with gold from Uphaz, Hung with violet and purple fabrics— no matter how fancy the sticks, they’re still sticks.
Jeremiah 10:10 - But God is the real thing— the living God, the eternal King. When he’s angry, Earth shakes. Yes, and the godless nations quake.
Jeremiah 10:11 - “Tell them this, ‘The stick gods who made nothing, neither sky nor earth, Will come to nothing on the earth and under the sky.’” But it is God whose power made the earth, whose wisdom gave shape to the world, who crafted the cosmos. He thunders, and rain pours down. He sends the clouds soaring. He embellishes the storm with lightnings, launches wind from his warehouse. Stick-god worshipers looking mighty foolish, god-makers embarrassed by their handmade gods! Their gods are frauds—dead sticks, deadwood gods, tasteless jokes. When the fires of judgment come, they’ll be ashes.
Jeremiah 10:16 - But the Portion-of-Jacob is the real thing. He put the whole universe together And pays special attention to Israel. His name? God-of-the-Angel-Armies! * * *
Exodus 5:2 - Pharaoh said, “And who is God that I should listen to him and send Israel off? I know nothing of this so-called ‘God’ and I’m certainly not going to send Israel off.”
Joshua 24:15 - “If you decide that it’s a bad thing to worship God, then choose a god you’d rather serve—and do it today. Choose one of the gods your ancestors worshiped from the country beyond The River, or one of the gods of the Amorites, on whose land you’re now living. As for me and my family, we’ll worship God.”
Joshua 24:2 - “This is what God, the God of Israel, says: A long time ago your ancestors, Terah and his sons Abraham and Nahor, lived to the east of the River Euphrates. They worshiped other gods. I took your ancestor Abraham from the far side of The River. I led him all over the land of Canaan and multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac. Then I gave Isaac Jacob and Esau. I let Esau have the mountains of Seir as home, but Jacob and his sons ended up in Egypt. I sent Moses and Aaron. I hit Egypt hard with plagues and then led you out of there. I brought your ancestors out of Egypt. You came to the sea, the Egyptians in hot pursuit with chariots and cavalry, to the very edge of the Red Sea!
Isaiah 44:9 - All those who make no-god idols don’t amount to a thing, and what they work so hard at making is nothing. Their little puppet-gods see nothing and know nothing—they’re total embarrassments! Who would bother making gods that can’t do anything, that can’t “god”? Watch all the no-god worshipers hide their faces in shame. Watch the no-god makers slink off humiliated when their idols fail them. Get them out here in the open. Make them face God-reality.
Isaiah 44:12 - The blacksmith makes his no-god, works it over in his forge, hammering it on his anvil—such hard work! He works away, fatigued with hunger and thirst.
Isaiah 44:13 - The woodworker draws up plans for his no-god, traces it on a block of wood. He shapes it with chisels and planes into human shape—a beautiful woman, a handsome man, ready to be placed in a chapel. He first cuts down a cedar, or maybe picks out a pine or oak, and lets it grow strong in the forest, nourished by the rain. Then it can serve a double purpose: Part he uses as firewood for keeping warm and baking bread; from the other part he makes a god that he worships—carves it into a god shape and prays before it. With half he makes a fire to warm himself and barbecue his supper. He eats his fill and sits back satisfied with his stomach full and his feet warmed by the fire: “Ah, this is the life.” And he still has half left for a god, made to his personal design—a handy, convenient no-god to worship whenever so inclined. Whenever the need strikes him he prays to it, “Save me. You’re my god.”
Isaiah 44:18 - Pretty stupid, wouldn’t you say? Don’t they have eyes in their heads? Are their brains working at all? Doesn’t it occur to them to say, “Half of this tree I used for firewood: I baked bread, roasted meat, and enjoyed a good meal. And now I’ve used the rest to make a repulsive no-god. Here I am praying to a stick of wood!”
Isaiah 44:20 - This lover of emptiness, of nothing, is so out of touch with reality, so far gone, that he can’t even look at what he’s doing, can’t even look at the no-god stick of wood in his hand and say, “This is crazy.” * * *
1 Corinthians 10:19 - Do you see the difference? Sacrifices offered to idols are offered to nothing, for what’s the idol but a nothing? Or worse than nothing, a minus, a demon! I don’t want you to become part of something that reduces you to less than yourself. And you can’t have it both ways, banqueting with the Master one day and slumming with demons the next. Besides, the Master won’t put up with it. He wants us—all or nothing. Do you think you can get off with anything less?
1 Peter 4:3 - You’ve already put in your time in that God-ignorant way of life, partying night after night, a drunken and profligate life. Now it’s time to be done with it for good. Of course, your old friends don’t understand why you don’t join in with the old gang anymore. But you don’t have to give an account to them. They’re the ones who will be called on the carpet—and before God himself.
1 Corinthians 8:4 - Some people say, quite rightly, that idols have no actual existence, that there’s nothing to them, that there is no God other than our one God, that no matter how many of these so-called gods are named and worshiped they still don’t add up to anything but a tall story. They say—again, quite rightly—that there is only one God the Father, that everything comes from him, and that he wants us to live for him. Also, they say that there is only one Master—Jesus the Messiah—and that everything is for his sake, including us. Yes. It’s true.
Ephesians 2:11 - But don’t take any of this for granted. It was only yesterday that you outsiders to God’s ways had no idea of any of this, didn’t know the first thing about the way God works, hadn’t the faintest idea of Christ. You knew nothing of that rich history of God’s covenants and promises in Israel, hadn’t a clue about what God was doing in the world at large. Now because of Christ—dying that death, shedding that blood—you who were once out of it altogether are in on everything.

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The Message - Earlier, before you knew God personally, you were enslaved to so-called gods that had nothing of the divine about them. But now that you know the real God—or rather since God knows you—how can you possibly subject yourselves again to those tin gods? For that is exactly what you do when you are intimidated into scrupulously observing all the traditions, taboos, and superstitions associated with special days and seasons and years. I am afraid that all my hard work among you has gone up in a puff of smoke!
新标点和合本 - 但从前你们不认识　神的时候，是给那些本来不是神的作奴仆；
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 但从前不认识上帝的时候，你们是给那些本来不是上帝的神明作奴隶；
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 但从前不认识　神的时候，你们是给那些本来不是　神的神明作奴隶；
当代译本 - 从前，你们不认识上帝，做那些假神的奴隶。
圣经新译本 - 从前你们不认识　神的时候，是给那些本来不是　神的作奴仆；
中文标准译本 - 从前，你们不认识神的时候，固然给那些本性上不是神的做了奴仆，
现代标点和合本 - 但从前你们不认识神的时候，是给那些本来不是神的做奴仆。
和合本（拼音版） - 但从前你们不认识上帝的时候，是给那些本来不是神的作奴仆。
New International Version - Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
New International Reader's Version - At one time you didn’t know God. You were slaves to gods that are really not gods at all.
English Standard Version - Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.
New Living Translation - Before you Gentiles knew God, you were slaves to so-called gods that do not even exist.
Christian Standard Bible - But in the past, since you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.
New American Standard Bible - However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are not gods.
New King James Version - But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.
Amplified Bible - But at that time, when you did not know [the true] God and were unacquainted with Him, you [Gentiles] were slaves to those [pagan] things which by [their very] nature were not and could not be gods at all.
American Standard Version - Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:
King James Version - Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
New English Translation - Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.
World English Bible - However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
新標點和合本 - 但從前你們不認識神的時候，是給那些本來不是神的作奴僕；
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 但從前不認識上帝的時候，你們是給那些本來不是上帝的神明作奴隸；
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 但從前不認識　神的時候，你們是給那些本來不是　神的神明作奴隸；
當代譯本 - 從前，你們不認識上帝，做那些假神的奴隸。
聖經新譯本 - 從前你們不認識　神的時候，是給那些本來不是　神的作奴僕；
呂振中譯本 - 但從前你們不認識上帝的時候，是給那些本性不是神的做奴僕。
中文標準譯本 - 從前，你們不認識神的時候，固然給那些本性上不是神的做了奴僕，
現代標點和合本 - 但從前你們不認識神的時候，是給那些本來不是神的做奴僕。
文理和合譯本 - 昔爾不識上帝、役於本非神者、
文理委辦譯本 - 昔爾不識上帝、非上帝反服事之、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 昔爾不識天主、所事之神、本非天主、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 然曩日爾未識天主、猶為偽神所奴；
Nueva Versión Internacional - Antes, cuando no conocían a Dios, ustedes eran esclavos de los que en realidad no son dioses.
현대인의 성경 - 전에 여러분이 하나님을 알지 못했을 때는 실제로 있지도 않은 신들에게 종이 되었습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Когда вы еще не знали Бога, вы были рабами существ, которые по природе своей не боги.
Восточный перевод - Когда вы ещё не знали Всевышнего, вы были рабами «богов», которые вовсе не боги.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Когда вы ещё не знали Аллаха, вы были рабами «богов», которые вовсе не боги.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Когда вы ещё не знали Всевышнего, вы были рабами «богов», которые вовсе не боги.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mais autrefois, vous ne connaissiez pas Dieu, c’est pourquoi vous serviez comme des esclaves des divinités qui, en réalité, ne sont pas des dieux.
リビングバイブル - ガラテヤの人たち。あなたがた外国人は、神を知らなかった時、実際には存在しない「神々」と呼ばれているものの奴隷でした。
Nestle Aland 28 - Ἀλλὰ τότε μὲν οὐκ εἰδότες θεὸν ἐδουλεύσατε τοῖς φύσει μὴ οὖσιν θεοῖς·
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἀλλὰ τότε μὲν οὐκ εἰδότες Θεὸν, ἐδουλεύσατε τοῖς φύσει μὴ οὖσι θεοῖς;
Nova Versão Internacional - Antes, quando vocês não conheciam a Deus, eram escravos daqueles que, por natureza, não são deuses.
Hoffnung für alle - Als ihr von Gott noch nichts wusstet, habt ihr sogenannten Göttern gedient, die in Wirklichkeit gar keine sind.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ngày trước, anh chị em không biết Đức Chúa Trời, nên đã làm nô lệ cho những thần linh giả tạo.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เมื่อก่อนท่านยังไม่รู้จักพระเจ้า ท่านเป็นทาสของผู้ซึ่งโดยสภาพแล้วไม่ใช่เทพเจ้าเลย
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - อย่างไรก็ตาม เมื่อก่อนท่านทั้งหลายยังไม่รู้จักพระเจ้า ท่านเป็นทาสของบรรดาเทพเจ้าที่ไม่ใช่พระเจ้าที่แท้จริง

Romans 1:28 - Since they didn’t bother to acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run loose. And then all hell broke loose: rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious backstabbing. They made life hell on earth with their envy, wanton killing, bickering, and cheating. Look at them: mean-spirited, venomous, fork-tongued God-bashers. Bullies, swaggerers, insufferable windbags! They keep inventing new ways of wrecking lives. They ditch their parents when they get in the way. Stupid, slimy, cruel, cold-blooded. And it’s not as if they don’t know better. They know perfectly well they’re spitting in God’s face. And they don’t care—worse, they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best!
Acts 17:30 - “God overlooks it as long as you don’t know any better—but that time is past. The unknown is now known, and he’s calling for a radical life-change. He has set a day when the entire human race will be judged and everything set right. And he has already appointed the judge, confirming him before everyone by raising him from the dead.”
1 John 3:1 - What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it—we’re called children of God! That’s who we really are. But that’s also why the world doesn’t recognize us or take us seriously, because it has no idea who he is or what he’s up to.
Jeremiah 10:6 - All this is nothing compared to you, O God. You’re wondrously great, famously great. Who can fail to be impressed by you, King of the nations? It’s your very nature to be worshiped! Look far and wide among the elite of the nations. The best they can come up with is nothing compared to you. Stupidly, they line them up—a lineup of sticks, good for nothing but making smoke. Gilded with silver foil from Tarshish, covered with gold from Uphaz, Hung with violet and purple fabrics— no matter how fancy the sticks, they’re still sticks.
Jeremiah 10:10 - But God is the real thing— the living God, the eternal King. When he’s angry, Earth shakes. Yes, and the godless nations quake.
Jeremiah 10:11 - “Tell them this, ‘The stick gods who made nothing, neither sky nor earth, Will come to nothing on the earth and under the sky.’” But it is God whose power made the earth, whose wisdom gave shape to the world, who crafted the cosmos. He thunders, and rain pours down. He sends the clouds soaring. He embellishes the storm with lightnings, launches wind from his warehouse. Stick-god worshipers looking mighty foolish, god-makers embarrassed by their handmade gods! Their gods are frauds—dead sticks, deadwood gods, tasteless jokes. When the fires of judgment come, they’ll be ashes.
Jeremiah 10:16 - But the Portion-of-Jacob is the real thing. He put the whole universe together And pays special attention to Israel. His name? God-of-the-Angel-Armies! * * *
Exodus 5:2 - Pharaoh said, “And who is God that I should listen to him and send Israel off? I know nothing of this so-called ‘God’ and I’m certainly not going to send Israel off.”
Joshua 24:15 - “If you decide that it’s a bad thing to worship God, then choose a god you’d rather serve—and do it today. Choose one of the gods your ancestors worshiped from the country beyond The River, or one of the gods of the Amorites, on whose land you’re now living. As for me and my family, we’ll worship God.”
Joshua 24:2 - “This is what God, the God of Israel, says: A long time ago your ancestors, Terah and his sons Abraham and Nahor, lived to the east of the River Euphrates. They worshiped other gods. I took your ancestor Abraham from the far side of The River. I led him all over the land of Canaan and multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac. Then I gave Isaac Jacob and Esau. I let Esau have the mountains of Seir as home, but Jacob and his sons ended up in Egypt. I sent Moses and Aaron. I hit Egypt hard with plagues and then led you out of there. I brought your ancestors out of Egypt. You came to the sea, the Egyptians in hot pursuit with chariots and cavalry, to the very edge of the Red Sea!
Isaiah 44:9 - All those who make no-god idols don’t amount to a thing, and what they work so hard at making is nothing. Their little puppet-gods see nothing and know nothing—they’re total embarrassments! Who would bother making gods that can’t do anything, that can’t “god”? Watch all the no-god worshipers hide their faces in shame. Watch the no-god makers slink off humiliated when their idols fail them. Get them out here in the open. Make them face God-reality.
Isaiah 44:12 - The blacksmith makes his no-god, works it over in his forge, hammering it on his anvil—such hard work! He works away, fatigued with hunger and thirst.
Isaiah 44:13 - The woodworker draws up plans for his no-god, traces it on a block of wood. He shapes it with chisels and planes into human shape—a beautiful woman, a handsome man, ready to be placed in a chapel. He first cuts down a cedar, or maybe picks out a pine or oak, and lets it grow strong in the forest, nourished by the rain. Then it can serve a double purpose: Part he uses as firewood for keeping warm and baking bread; from the other part he makes a god that he worships—carves it into a god shape and prays before it. With half he makes a fire to warm himself and barbecue his supper. He eats his fill and sits back satisfied with his stomach full and his feet warmed by the fire: “Ah, this is the life.” And he still has half left for a god, made to his personal design—a handy, convenient no-god to worship whenever so inclined. Whenever the need strikes him he prays to it, “Save me. You’re my god.”
Isaiah 44:18 - Pretty stupid, wouldn’t you say? Don’t they have eyes in their heads? Are their brains working at all? Doesn’t it occur to them to say, “Half of this tree I used for firewood: I baked bread, roasted meat, and enjoyed a good meal. And now I’ve used the rest to make a repulsive no-god. Here I am praying to a stick of wood!”
Isaiah 44:20 - This lover of emptiness, of nothing, is so out of touch with reality, so far gone, that he can’t even look at what he’s doing, can’t even look at the no-god stick of wood in his hand and say, “This is crazy.” * * *
1 Corinthians 10:19 - Do you see the difference? Sacrifices offered to idols are offered to nothing, for what’s the idol but a nothing? Or worse than nothing, a minus, a demon! I don’t want you to become part of something that reduces you to less than yourself. And you can’t have it both ways, banqueting with the Master one day and slumming with demons the next. Besides, the Master won’t put up with it. He wants us—all or nothing. Do you think you can get off with anything less?
1 Peter 4:3 - You’ve already put in your time in that God-ignorant way of life, partying night after night, a drunken and profligate life. Now it’s time to be done with it for good. Of course, your old friends don’t understand why you don’t join in with the old gang anymore. But you don’t have to give an account to them. They’re the ones who will be called on the carpet—and before God himself.
1 Corinthians 8:4 - Some people say, quite rightly, that idols have no actual existence, that there’s nothing to them, that there is no God other than our one God, that no matter how many of these so-called gods are named and worshiped they still don’t add up to anything but a tall story. They say—again, quite rightly—that there is only one God the Father, that everything comes from him, and that he wants us to live for him. Also, they say that there is only one Master—Jesus the Messiah—and that everything is for his sake, including us. Yes. It’s true.
Ephesians 2:11 - But don’t take any of this for granted. It was only yesterday that you outsiders to God’s ways had no idea of any of this, didn’t know the first thing about the way God works, hadn’t the faintest idea of Christ. You knew nothing of that rich history of God’s covenants and promises in Israel, hadn’t a clue about what God was doing in the world at large. Now because of Christ—dying that death, shedding that blood—you who were once out of it altogether are in on everything.