a[ch. 12:11; 1 Chr. 16:35; Jer. 1:8, 19; 15:20]
bSee ch. 9:15
c[Rom. 11:13; 1 Tim. 2:7]
dIsa. 35:5; 42:7
eSee Luke 22:53; 1 Cor. 5:5
fSee ch. 5:31
gSee ch. 20:32
h[ch. 15:9; 2 Thess. 2:13]
iEph. 2:11, 12; [1 Pet. 4:3]; See ch. 6:11
j1 Thess. 1:9
kHab. 2:18, 19; [Ps. 115:5; Isa. 46:7; Jer. 10:5]
l1 Cor. 1:21; 1 Thess. 4:5; 2 Thess. 1:8; 1 John 4:8
m[Eph. 2:11, 12; 1 Thess. 1:9]
n2 Chr. 13:9; Isa. 37:19; Jer. 2:11; 5:7; 16:20; [1 Cor. 8:4]
oSee 1 Cor. 8:3
p[ch. 3:3]
qRom. 8:3; Heb. 7:18

Acts 26:17-18

17 adelivering you from your people and from the Gentiles— bto whom I cam sending you 18 dto open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from ethe power of Satan to God, that they may receive fforgiveness of sins and ga place among those who are sanctified hby faith in me.’

1 Corinthians 12:2

2You know that iwhen you were pagans jyou were led astray to kmute idols, however you were led.

Galatians 4:8-9

Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

8Formerly, when you ldid not know God, you mwere enslaved to those that by nature nare not gods. 9But now that you have come to know God, or rather oto be known by God, phow can you turn back again to qthe weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
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