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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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Footnotes

  1. 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.

15 “Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human,(A) like you. We are bringing you good news,(B) telling you to turn from these worthless things(C) to the living God,(D) who made the heavens and the earth(E) and the sea and everything in them.(F)

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15 And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:

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(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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Footnotes

  1. 4:8 Things that by nature are not gods: or “gods that by nature do not exist.”

Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

Formerly, when you did not know God,(A) you were slaves(B) to those who by nature are not gods.(C)

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Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

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not in lustful passion as do the Gentiles who do not know God;(A)

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not in passionate lust(A) like the pagans,(B) who do not know God;(C)

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Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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