Act 17:23, Gal 4:8-9, Eph 2:12, 1Th 4:5 | ESV | STEP | For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship , I found also an altar with this inscription , To the unknown god . What therefore you worship as unknown , this I proclaim to you .

Acts 17:23

23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ^a‘To the unknown god.’ ^bWhat therefore you worship ^cas unknown, this I proclaim to you.

Galatians 4:8-9

Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

8 Formerly, when you ^ddid not know God, you ^ewere enslaved to those that by nature ^fare not gods. 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather ^gto be known by God, ^hhow can you turn back again to ⁱthe weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

Ephesians 2:12

12 remember ^jthat you were at that time separated from Christ, ^kalienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to ^lthe covenants of promise, ^mhaving no hope and without God in the world.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

5 not in ⁿthe passion of lust ^olike the Gentiles ^pwho do not know God;