1 Corinthians 8:5
for even if there are those called gods, whether in Heaven, whether on earth—as there are many gods and many lords—
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Jeremiah 2:11Has a nation changed gods? (And they [are] no gods!) And My people has changed its glory || For that which does not profit.
Jeremiah 11:13For the number of your cities have been your gods, O Judah, || And [for] the number of the streets of Jerusalem You have placed altars to a shameful thing, || Altars to make incense to Ba‘al.
John 10:34Jesus answered them, “Is it not having been written in your law: I said, you are gods?
2 Thessalonians 2:4who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called god or worshiped, so as for him to have sat down in the temple of God, proclaiming 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 →