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1 Corinthians 8:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’,  and that ‘there is no God but one’.

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Today, recognise and keep in mind that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other.


Look, you are nothing and your work is worthless. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.


For there is one God  and one mediator  between God and mankind, the man  Christ Jesus,


one God  and Father  of all, who is above all and through all and in all.


‘Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.  ,


Jesus answered, ‘The most important   is Listen, Israel! The Lord   our God, the Lord   is one.


This is what the Lord, your Redeemer  who formed you from the womb,  says: I am the Lord, who made everything; who stretched out the heavens by myself; who alone spread out the earth;


This is what the Lord, the King of Israel and its Redeemer,  the Lord of Armies, says: I am the first and I am the last. There is no God but me.


to the only  God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord,  be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time,  now and for ever. Amen.


For if someone sees you, the one who has knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged  to eat food offered to idols?


Now about food sacrificed to idols:  We know that ‘we all have knowledge’. Knowledge puffs up,  but love  builds up.


You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods.


‘People! Why are you doing these things? We are people also, just like you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you turn from these worthless things  to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.  ,


Everyone is stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image, for his cast images are a lie; there is no breath in them.


But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God  and eternal King. The earth quakes at his wrath, and the nations cannot endure his fury.


This is what the Lord says: ‘The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will follow you, they will come over in chains and bow down to you. They will confess  to you, “God is indeed with you,  and there is no other; there is no other God.” ’


I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me. I will strengthen  you, though you do not know me,


Now, Lord our God, save us from his power so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Lord, are God  ,  #– #you alone.


Lord of Armies, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim,  you are God   #– #you alone   #– #of all the kingdoms of the earth.  You made the heavens and the earth.


See now that I alone am he; there is no God but me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal. No one can rescue anyone from my power.


You were shown these things so that you would know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.


Lord God, you have begun to show your greatness and your strong hand to your servant, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can perform deeds and mighty acts like yours?


Now to the King  eternal,  immortal,  invisible, the only  God,  be honour  and glory  for ever and ever. Amen.


but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality,  from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.


So the weak person, the brother or sister for whom Christ died,  is ruined  , by your knowledge.


But in the past, since you didn’t know God,  you were enslaved to things  that by nature are not gods.





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