Bible verses about "pagans" | Murdock

⁴⁷ And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye that is not common? Do not even publicans do this?

¹⁶ And while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, he was pained in his spirit; because he saw that the whole city was full of idols. ¹⁷ And in the synagogue he spoke with the Jews, and with those that feared God, and in the market-place with them who daily assembled there. ¹⁸ And also philosophers of the sect of Epicureans, and others who were called Stoics, disputed with him. And one and another of them said: What doth this word-monger mean? Others said: He announceth foreign deities; because he preached to them Jesus and his resurrection. ¹⁹ And they took him and brought him to the place of judgments called Areopagus, and said to him: May we know what this new doctrine which thou preachest is? ²⁰ For thou scatterest in our ears strange words; and we wish to know what they are. ²¹ For all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there, cared for nothing else but to tell or to hear something new. ²² And as Paul stood in the Areopagus, he said: Men, Athenians, I perceive that in all things ye are excessive in the worship of demons. ²³ For, as I was rambling about, and viewing the temples of your worship, I met with an altar, on which was inscribed, TO THE HIDDEN GOD. Him, therefore, whom ye worship while ye know him not, the very same I announce to you.

⁹ For the coming of that evil One, is the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders,

⁹ And there was a certain man there, whose name was Simon, who had resided in that city a long time, and who seduced the people of the Samaritans by his sorceries, magnifying himself, and saying, I am a great personage. ¹⁰ And they all inclined towards him, great and small; and they said, This is the mighty power of God. ¹¹ And they acquiesced in him, because for a long time he had astonished them by his sorceries. ¹² But when they gave credence to Philip, as he preached the kingdom of God, in the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah; they were baptized, both men and women. ¹³ And Simon himself also believed, and was baptized, and adhered to Philip. And when he saw the signs and mighty deeds which were wrought by his hand, he was surprised and astonished.

⁹ Or do ye not know, that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not mistake; neither whoremongers, nor idol-worshippers, nor adulterers, nor debauchers, nor liers with males, ¹⁰ nor the avaricious, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And these things have been in some of you: but ye are washed, and are sanctified, and made righteous, in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and by the Spirit of our God.