Bible verses about "pagans" | LITV

¹ These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall take heed to do in the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers has given to you, to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth: ² You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations which you are expelling served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree. ³ And you shall break down their altars, and shatter their standing pillars. And you shall burn their pillars with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and shall destroy their names out of that place. ⁴ You shall not do so to Jehovah your God. ⁵ But you shall seek to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes; for you shall seek His dwelling, to put His name there. And you shall go there. ⁶ And you shall bring your burnt offerings there, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offering, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock. ⁷ And you shall eat there before Jehovah your God, and shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, with which Jehovah your God has blessed you. ⁸ You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, each doing all that is right in his own eyes. ⁹ For you have not come to the rest and to the inheritance which Jehovah your God is giving to you. ¹⁰ And you shall cross over the Jordan, and shall live in the land which Jehovah your God is causing you to inherit. And He shall give you rest from all your enemies all around; and you shall live securely. ¹¹ And it shall be the place which Jehovah your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you, your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice freewill offerings which you vow to Jehovah. ¹² And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you and your sons, and your daughters, and your male slaves, and your female slaves, and the Levite within your gates because he has no portion or inheritance with you. ¹³ Take heed to yourself that you not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; ¹⁴ but in the place which Jehovah shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command. ¹⁵ Only with all the desire of your soul you shall sacrifice and shall eat flesh within all your gates according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean one may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the hart. ¹⁶ Only, you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it as water on the earth. ¹⁷ You may not eat the tithe of your grain within your gates, and of your new wine, and your oil, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock, and any of your vows which you vow, and your freewill offering, and the heave offering of your hand. ¹⁸ But you shall eat it before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, you and your son, and your daughter, and your male slave, and your female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates. And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God in all that you put your hand to . ¹⁹ Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on the land. ²⁰ Then Jehovah your God shall enlarge your border, as He has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat meat, because your soul longs to eat meat, you may eat meat according to all the desire of your soul. ²¹ If the place which Jehovah your God shall choose to put His name there is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock which Jehovah has given you, as I have commanded you; and you shall eat within your gates according to all the desire of your soul. ²² Only, as the gazelle and the hart are eaten, so you shall eat of it; the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike. ²³ Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat; ²⁴ You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth as water. ²⁵ You shall not eat it in order that it may be well with you and with your sons after you, when you do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah. ²⁶ Only, your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take up and shall go to the place which Jehovah shall choose. ²⁷ And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Jehovah your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out by the altar of Jehovah your God; and you shall eat the flesh. ²⁸ Take heed to listen to all these words which I am commanding you, in order that it may be well with you and with your sons after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah your God. ²⁹ When Jehovah your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you are going in to possess them, and you shall possess them, and shall live in their land, ³⁰ take heed to yourself that you not be snared to follow them after they have been destroyed before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? And I shall do so, even I. ³¹ You shall not do so to Jehovah your God; for everything hateful to Jehovah, which He detests, they have done to their gods. For they have even burned their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. ³² All the things that I command you, take heed to do them and you shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

⁴⁷ And if you only greet your brothers, what exceptional thing do you do? Do not the tax-collectors do so?

¹⁹ And you shall not draw near to uncover the nakedness of a woman in her menstrual impurity. ²⁰ And you shall not give your semen to the your neighbor's wife by lying with her, for uncleanness with her. ²¹ And you shall not give your seed to pass them through to Molech, nor shall you pollute the name of your God; I am Jehovah. ²² And you shall not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is a perversion. ²³ And you shall not give your semen with any animal, for uncleanness with it. And a woman shall not stand before an animal to lie down with it; it is a shameful mixing.

⁷ And he broke down the houses of the male prostitutes that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women were weaving houses for Asherah.

¹⁶ But awaiting them in Athens, Paul's spirit was pained within him, seeing the city full of images. ¹⁷ Then, indeed, he addressed the Jews in the synagogue, and those worshiping, also in the market every day, to those happening to be there . ¹⁸ And some of the Epicureans and of the Stoics, philosophers, fell in with him. And some said, What may this chatterer wish to say? And these others, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons (because he announced Jesus and the resurrection to them). ¹⁹ And taking hold of him, they led him to the Areopagus, saying, Are we able to know what is this new doctrine being spoken by you? ²⁰ For you bring startling things to our ears. We are minded, then, to know what these things wish to be. ²¹ And all Athenians and the strangers living there have leisure for nothing else than to say and to hear newer things. ²² And standing in the middle of the Areopagus, Paul said, Men, Athenians, I see how you in everything are fearful of gods; ²³ for passing through and looking up at the objects of your worship, I also found an altar on which had been written, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Not knowing, then, whom you worship, I make Him known to you.

¹ Hear the word which Jehovah speaks to you, O house of Israel. ² So says Jehovah, You shall not be goaded to the way of the nations; and do not be terrified at the signs of the heavens; for the nations were terrified at them. ³ For the ordinances of the people are vanity. For one cuts a tree out of the forest with the axe, the work of the hands of the craftsman. ⁴ They adorn it with silver and with gold; they fasten them with nails and hammers, so that it will not wobble. ⁵ They are like a rounded post, and they cannot speak; they must surely be carried, because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil nor good; it is not with them.

⁹ His coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and miracles and lying wonders,

¹ You shall not make idols to yourselves; and you shall not set up for yourselves graven images, or a memorial pillar. And you shall not place any stone image in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I am Jehovah your God. ² You shall keep My sabbaths, and revere My sanctuary; I am Jehovah. ³ If you walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them, ⁴ then I will give you rains in their season, and the land shall yield her produce, and the tree of the field shall give its fruit; ⁵ and your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to satisfaction, and live in your land securely. ⁶ And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall terrify you. And I shall cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, and the sword shall not pass over into your land. ⁷ And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. ⁸ And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you shall pursue a myriad; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. ⁹ And I shall turn My face toward you and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and shall establish My covenant with you. ¹⁰ And you shall eat very old provision, and clear away the old because of the new. ¹¹ And I will set My tabernacle in your midst, and My soul shall not loathe you; ¹² and I shall walk always in your midst, and shall be God to you, and you, you shall be people to Me; ¹³ I am Jehovah your God, who has brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, from being their slaves; and I will break the bars of your yoke, and cause you to stand erect. ¹⁴ And if you will not listen to Me, and do not do all these commands; ¹⁵ and if you reject My statutes, and if your soul hates My judgments, so as not to do all My commands, to the breaking of My covenant; ¹⁶ I will also do this to you, and I shall appoint terror over you, the wasting, and the burning fever, destroying the eyes, and consuming the soul; and you shall sow your seed in vain, and your enemies will eat it. ¹⁷ And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies; and those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee, and there will be no one pursuing you. ¹⁸ And if after these things you will not listen to Me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sin; ¹⁹ and I will break the pride of your strength, and will make your heavens as iron, and your earth as bronze; ²⁰ and your strength shall be consumed in vain, and your land shall not give her produce, and the tree of the land shall not give its fruit. ²¹ And if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to listen to Me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins, ²² and send against you the beast of the field, and it shall bereave you. And I shall cut off your livestock and shall make you few, so that your ways are desolate. ²³ And if you are not chastised by Me by these things, and shall walk contrary to Me, ²⁴ then I, I also, shall walk contrary to you, and shall smite you, even I, seven times more for your sins; ²⁵ and I will bring a sword on you, executing the vengeance of the covenant, and you shall be gathered to your cities, and I shall send pestilence into your midst; and you shall be given into the hand of an enemy. ²⁶ When I break to you the staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall give back your bread by weight; and you shall eat, and shall not be satisfied. ²⁷ If you will not listen to Me for this, and shall walk contrary to Me, ²⁸ then I also will walk contrary to you in fury. I also will chastise you, I also, seven times for your sins. ²⁹ And you shall eat of the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat of the flesh of your daughters. ³⁰ And I shall destroy your high places and cut down your altars, and shall put your dead bodies on the carcasses of your idols. And My soul shall loathe you. ³¹ And I shall make your cities a waste, and shall make your sanctuaries desolate; and I shall not smell your sweet fragrances. ³² And I shall make the land desolate, and your enemies who are living in it shall be astonished at it. ³³ And I will scatter you among nations, and shall draw out the sword after you, and your land shall become a waste, and your cities shall be a desolation. ³⁴ Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths, all the days of the desolation. And you shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall enjoy rest, and shall enjoy its sabbaths. ³⁵ It shall rest all the days of the desolation, that which it has not rested in your sabbaths while you lived on it. ³⁶ And those who are left of you, I shall also bring a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they shall fall when no one pursues. ³⁷ And they shall stumble upon one another, as if it were before the sword, when no one pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. ³⁸ And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall devour you. ³⁹ And of those who are left of you, they shall putrefy in their iniquity, in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers, they shall putrefy with them. ⁴⁰ And if they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass with which they have trespassed against Me; and, also, that they have walked contrary to Me, ⁴¹ I also will walk contrary to them, and I will bring them into the land of their enemies. If their uncircumcised hearts are then humbled, and they then have satisfied for their iniquity; ⁴² then I will remember My covenant with Jacob; and also My covenant with Isaac; and I shall also remember My covenant with Abraham, and I shall remember the land. ⁴³ For the land shall be forsaken by them, and shall satisfy for its sabbaths, in the desolation without them. And they shall satisfy for their iniquity, because, even because, they have kicked against My judgments, and their soul has loathed My statutes. ⁴⁴ And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I hate them, to consume them, to break My covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God. ⁴⁵ Then I shall remember for them the covenant of the first fathers, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God; I am Jehovah. ⁴⁶ These are the statutes and the judgments and the laws which Jehovah has given between Him and the sons of Israel, in Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

¹⁸ and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Woe to those sewing bands to all joints of my hands, and make long veils for the head of every man of stature, to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and will you save alive the souls for yourselves?

⁹ But a certain man named Simon had long been conjuring in the city and amazing the nation of Samaria, claiming himself to be some great one. ¹⁰ All were paying attention to him, from small to great, saying, This one is the power of God, which is great. ¹¹ And they were paying attention to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his conjuring. ¹² But when they believed Philip preaching the gospel, the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. ¹³ And Simon himself also believed, and being baptized was continuing steadfastly with Philip. And seeing miracles and mighty works happening, he was amazed.

⁹ Or do you not know that unjust ones will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous ones, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor plunderers shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And some were these things, 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.

⁹ When you come to the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you, you shall not learn to do according to the hateful acts of those nations. ¹⁰ There shall not be found in you one who passes his son or his daughter through the fire, one that uses divination, an observer of clouds, or a fortuneteller, or a whisperer of spells, ¹¹ or a magic charmer, or one asking of familiar spirits, or a wizard, or one inquiring of the dead. ¹² For all doing these things are an abomination to Jehovah. And because of these filthy acts Jehovah your God is expelling these nations before you.

¹ And God spoke all these words, saying: ² I am Jehovah your God, who has brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. ³ You shall not have any other gods beside Me. ⁴ You shall not make a graven image for yourself, or any likeness in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth; ⁵ you shall not bow to them, and you shall not serve them; for I am Jehovah your God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third and on the fourth generation, to those that hate Me; ⁶ and doing kindness to thousands, to those loving Me, and to those keeping My commandments. ⁷ You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain; for Jehovah will not leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain. ⁸ Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy; ⁹ six days you shall labor and do all your work; ¹⁰ and the seventh day is a sabbath to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work, you, and your son, and your daughter, your male slave and your slave-girl, and your livestock, and your stranger who is in your gates. ¹¹ For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all which is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; on account of this Jehovah blessed the sabbath day and sanctified it. ¹² Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long on the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you. ¹³ You shall not murder. ¹⁴ You shall not commit adultery. ¹⁵ You shall not steal. ¹⁶ You shall not testify a witness of falsehood against your neighbor. ¹⁷ You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male slave, or his slave-girl, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which belongs to your neighbor. ¹⁸ And all the people saw the thunders, and the lightnings, and the sound of the ram's horn, and the smoking mountain. And the people looked, and they trembled, and they stood from a distance. ¹⁹ And they said to Moses, You speak with us, and we will hear. And let us not speak with God, that we not die. ²⁰ And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid, for God has come in order to test you, and so that His fear may be on your faces, that you may not sin. ²¹ And the people stood from a distance, and Moses went near the thick darkness where God was . ²² And Jehovah said to Moses, You shall say this to the sons of Israel: You have seen that I have spoken with you from the heavens. ²³ You shall not make gods of silver along with Me, and you shall not make gods of gold for yourselves. ²⁴ You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall sacrifice your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on it, your sheep and your cattle. In every place in which I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and will bless you. ²⁵ And if you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build them of cut stones. When you swing your tool on it, you defile it. ²⁶ And you shall not go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be uncovered on it.