Bible verses about "pagans" | Goodspeed

⁴⁷ And if you are polite to your brothers and no one else, what is there remarkable in that? Do not the very heathen do that?

¹⁶ While Paul waited for them at Athens, he was exasperated to see how idolatrous the city was. ¹⁷ He had discussions at the synagogue with the Jews and those who worshiped with them, and every day in the public square with any whom he happened to find. ¹⁸ Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some of them said, "What is this rag-picker trying to make out?" Others said, "He seems to be preaching some foreign deities." This was because he was telling the good news of Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹ So they took him and brought him to the council of the Areopagus and said, "May we know just what this new teaching of yours is? ²⁰ Some of the things you tell us sound strange to us, and we want to know just what they mean." ²¹ For all Athenians and all visitors there from abroad used to spend all their time telling or listening to something new. ²² Then Paul stood up in the middle of the council and said, "Men of Athens, from every point of view I see that you are extremely religious. ²³ For as I was going about and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an Unknown God.' So it is what you already worship in ignorance that I am now telling you of.

⁹ The other's appearance, by the contrivance of Satan, will be full of power and pretended signs and wonders,

⁹ There was a man named Simon in the town, who had been amazing the Samaritan people by practicing magic there, and who made great pretensions. ¹⁰ Everyone there, high and low, made much of him, and said, "He must be what is known as the Great Power of God!" ¹¹ They made much of him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. ¹² But when they believed Philip's message of the good news of the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, men and women alike accepted baptism. ¹³ Even Simon himself believed and after his baptism devoted himself to Philip, and he was amazed at seeing such signs and great wonders taking place.

⁹ Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice ¹⁰ or thieves or greedy—drunkards, abusive people, robbers—will not have any share in God's kingdom. ¹¹ Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.