'Pagans' in the Bible
Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful clothes, O Jerusalem, holy city! For uncircumcised and unclean pagans will no longer invade you.
"But [when you] pray, do not babble repetitiously like the pagans, for they think that because of their many words they will be heard.
for the pagans seek after all these [things]. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these [things].
No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.
You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.
For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the pagans choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
since they set out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from pagans.