For your gods have become as many as your towns, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars to shame you have set up, altars to make offerings to Baal.
1 Corinthians 8:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Indeed, even though there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as in fact there are many gods and many lords— More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For although there may be so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many of them, both of gods and of lords and masters, American Standard Version (1901) For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many; Common English Bible Granted, there are so-called “gods,” in heaven and on the earth, as there are many gods and many lords. Catholic Public Domain Version For although there are things that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (if one even considers there to be many gods and many lords) Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For although there be that are called gods, either in heaven or on earth (for there be gods many, and lords many); |
For your gods have become as many as your towns, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars to shame you have set up, altars to make offerings to Baal.
Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for something that does not profit.
But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them come, if they can save you, in your time of trouble, for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.
They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
So after they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you, Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Messiah?”
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe,
He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God.