Acts 14:15
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15 [a]“Men, why are you doing this? We are of the same nature as you, human beings. We proclaim to you good news that you should turn from these idols to the living God, ‘who made heaven and earth and sea and all that is in them.’(A)
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- 14:15–17 This is the first speech of Paul to Gentiles recorded by Luke in Acts (cf. Acts 17:22–31). Rather than showing how Christianity is the logical outgrowth of Judaism, as he does in speeches before Jews, Luke says that God excuses past Gentile ignorance and then presents a natural theology arguing for the recognition of God’s existence and presence through his activity in natural phenomena.
Galatians 4:8
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8 (A)At a time when you did not know God, you became slaves to things that by nature are not gods;[a]
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- 4:8 Things that by nature are not gods: or “gods that by nature do not exist.”
1 Thessalonians 4:5
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5 not in lustful passion as do the Gentiles who do not know God;(A)
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