Bible verses about "pagans" | Godbey

⁴⁷ If you salute your brethren only, what do ye more abundantly? do not the heathens also the same thing?

¹⁶ But Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, seeing the city devoted to idolatry. ¹⁷ Then indeed he spoke to the Jews, and to the worshipers in the synagogue, and to those incidentally meeting him every day in the forum. ¹⁸ And certain ones of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers interviewed him, and some continued to say, What would this babbler wish to say? and others said, He seems to be the propagator of strange divinities: because he was preaching the gospel of Jesus, and the resurrection. ¹⁹ And taking him, they led him to the Areopagus, saying; Are we able to know what is this new teaching, spoken by thee? ²⁰ For you bring certain strange things to our hearing: therefore we desire to know what these things wish to be. ²¹ But all the Athenians and itinerant strangers were accustomed to devote their time to nothing else, than to tell something new, or to hear something. ²² And Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said, Athenian men, I perceive that in all things you are very religious. ²³ For going through, and seeing your devotions, I also found an altar on which it was superscribed, To THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore I now preach unto you Him whom you are ignorantly worshiping.

⁹ whose coming is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,

⁹ And a certain man, by name Simon, was formerly practicing magic in the city, and bewitching the nation of Samaria, saying that himself was some great man: ¹⁰ to whom all from small even unto the great gave heed, saying, This one is the power of God, called Great. ¹¹ And they gave heed to him, because for a long time he had deceived them with his magic arts. ¹² But when they believed Philip preaching the gospel concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. ¹³ But Simon himself also believed: and being baptized, was constantly with Philip, both seeing the miracles and the great dynamites performed, was astonished.

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor scolds, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you: but you have washed, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of our God.