1 Corinthians 8:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Cross References

Psalm 86:10

For you are great, and do great works of wonder; you only are God.

Isaiah 37:16

O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 37:20

But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.

Isaiah 41:24

But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.

Isaiah 44:24

The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?

Isaiah 44:6

The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.

Isaiah 45:14

The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you, and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they will come over: and they will go down on their faces before you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among you; and there is no other God.

Isaiah 45:5

I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me:

Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

Jeremiah 10:14

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

Mark 12:29

Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord;

Acts 14:15

Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

Acts 15:20

But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

Acts 19:26

And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.

1 Corinthians 8:10

For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?

1 Corinthians 8:11

And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death.

Galatians 4:8

But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

Ephesians 4:6

One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

Deuteronomy 3:24

O Lord God, you have now for the first time let your servant see your great power and the strength of your hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth able to do such great works and such acts of power?

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.

Deuteronomy 4:35

All this he let you see, so that you might be certain that the Lord is God and there is no other.

Deuteronomy 4:39

So today be certain, and keep the knowledge deep in your hearts, that the Lord is God, in heaven on high and here on earth; there is no other God.

Deuteronomy 6:4

Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:

1 Timothy 1:17

Now to the King eternal, ever-living, unseen, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. So be it.

1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God and one peacemaker between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Jude 1:25

To the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, let us give glory and honour and authority and power, before all time and now and for ever. So be it.