1 Corinthians 8:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Even though food is offered to idols, we know that none of the idols in this world are alive. After all, there is only one God.

Cross References

Psalm 86:10

You perform great wonders because you alone are God.

Isaiah 37:16

LORD God All-Powerful of Israel, your throne is above the winged creatures. You created the heavens and the earth, and you alone rule the kingdoms of this world.

Isaiah 37:20

But you are our LORD and our God! We ask you to keep us safe from the Assyrian king. Then everyone in every kingdom on earth will know that you are the only LORD.

Isaiah 41:24

You idols are nothing, and you are powerless. To worship you would be disgusting.

Isaiah 44:24

Israel, I am your LORD. I am your source of life, and I have rescued you. I created everything from the sky above to the earth below.

Isaiah 44:6

I am the LORD All-Powerful, the first and the last, the one and only God. Israel, I have rescued you! I am your King.

Isaiah 45:14

My people, I, the LORD, promise that the riches of Egypt and the treasures of Ethiopia will belong to you. You will force into slavery those tall people of Seba. They will bow down and say, “The only true God is with you; there are no other gods.”

Isaiah 45:5

Only I am the LORD! There are no other gods. I have made you strong, though you don't know me.

Jeremiah 10:10

You, LORD, are the only true and living God. You will rule for all time. When you are angry the earth shakes, and nations are destroyed.

Jeremiah 10:14

People who make idols are so stupid! They will be disappointed, because their false gods are not alive.

Mark 12:29

Jesus answered, “The most important one says: ‘People of Israel, you have only one Lord and God.

Acts 14:15

Why are you doing this? We are humans just like you. Please give up all this foolishness. Turn to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.

Acts 15:20

We should simply write and tell them not to eat anything that has been offered to idols. They should be told not to eat the meat of any animal that has been strangled or that still has blood in it. They must also not commit any terrible sexual sins.

Acts 19:26

But you have seen and heard how this man Paul is upsetting a lot of people, not only in Ephesus, but almost everywhere in Asia. He claims that the gods we humans make are not really gods at all.

1 Corinthians 8:1

In your letter you asked me about food offered to idols. All of us know something about this subject. But knowledge makes us proud of ourselves, while love makes us helpful to others.

1 Corinthians 8:10

You know-all this, and so it doesn't bother you to eat in the temple of an idol. But suppose a person with a weak conscience sees you and decides to eat food that has been offered to idols.

1 Corinthians 8:11

Then what you know has destroyed someone Christ died for.

Galatians 4:8

Before you knew God, you were slaves of gods that are not real.

Ephesians 4:6

There is one God who is the Father of all people. Not only is God above all others, but he works by using all of us, and he lives in all of us.

Deuteronomy 3:24

“Our LORD, it seems that you have just begun to show me your great power. No other god in the sky or on earth is able to do the mighty things that you do.

Deuteronomy 32:39

Don't you understand? I am the only God; there are no others. I am the one who takes life and gives it again. I punished you with suffering. But now I will heal you, and nothing can stop me!

Deuteronomy 4:35

The LORD wants you to know he is the only true God, and he wants you to obey him. That's why he let you see his mighty miracles and his fierce fire on earth, and why you heard his voice from that fire and from the sky.

Deuteronomy 4:39

So remember that the LORD is the only true God, whether in the sky above or on the earth below.

Deuteronomy 6:4

Listen, Israel! The LORD our God is the only true God!

1 Timothy 1:17

I pray that honour and glory will always be given to the only God, who lives for ever and is the invisible and eternal King! Amen.

1 Timothy 2:5

There is only one God, and Christ Jesus is the only one who can bring us to God. Jesus was truly human, and he gave himself to rescue all of us.