1 Corinthians 8:5
For also since there are things called gods, whether in heaven or on the earth, as there are many gods and many lords,
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Jeremiah 2:11Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Jeremiah 11:13For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah, and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem ye have set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.
John 10:34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods?
2 Thessalonians 2:4who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or an object of worship, so as for him to sit in the temple of God, as God, displaying himself that he is God.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 8:5-7
On Eating Things Offered to Idols. ( a. d. 57.) 4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. 5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) 6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. In this passage he… Read the whole commentary →