Galatians 4:8 Cross References - Moffatt

⁸ In those days, when you were ignorant of God, you were in servitude to gods who are really no gods at all;

¹⁰ he entered the world — the world which existed through him — yet the world did not recognize him;

¹² Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul Hermes, since he was the chief spokesman.

²³ Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.

²⁹ Well, as the race of God, we ought not to imagine that the divine nature resembles gold or silver or stone, the product of human art and invention. ³⁰ Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

²³ they have exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the semblance of the likeness of mortal man, of birds, of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

²⁸ Yes, as they disdained to acknowledge God any longer, God has given them up to a reprobate instinct, for the perpetration of what is improper,

²¹ For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message.

⁴ Well then, with regard to food that has been offered to idols, I am quite aware that 'there is no such thing as an idol in the world' and that 'there is only the one God.'

¹⁹ Do I imply, you ask, that 'food offered to an idol has any meaning, or that an idol itself means any thing'? ²⁰ No, what I imply is that anything people sacrifice is sacrificed to daemons, not to God. And I do not want you to participate in daemons!

² You know when you were pagans, how your impulses led you to dumb idols;

¹¹ Remember, then, that once upon a time you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called 'the Uncircumcision' by that so-called 'Circumcision' which is itself the product of human hands in the flesh — ¹² remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.

¹⁸ their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them —

⁹ People tell us of their own accord about the visit we paid to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and a real God

⁵ not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God —

⁸ in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

³ It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

¹ 'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.