1 Corinthians 8:4

New American Bible - revised edition

So about the eating of meat sacrificed to idols: we know that “there is no idol in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Cross References

Psalm 86:10

For you are great and do wondrous deeds; and you alone are God.

Isaiah 37:16

“Lord of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned on the cherubim! You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. It is you who made the heavens and the earth.

Isaiah 37:20

Therefore, Lord, our God, save us from this man’s power, That all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, Lord, are God.”

Isaiah 41:24

Why, you are nothing and your work is nought; to choose you is an abomination!

Isaiah 44:24

Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, I spread out the earth by myself.

Isaiah 44:6

Thus says the Lord, Israel’s king, its redeemer, the Lord of hosts: I am the first, I am the last; there is no God but me.

Isaiah 45:14

Thus says the Lord: The earnings of Egypt, the gain of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, tall of stature, Shall come over to you and belong to you; they shall follow you, coming in chains. Before you they shall bow down, saying in prayer: “With you alone is God; and there is none other, no other god!

Isaiah 45:5

I am the Lord, there is no other, there is no God besides me. It is I who arm you, though you do not know me,

Jeremiah 10:10

The Lord is truly God, he is the living God, the eternal King, Before whose anger the earth quakes, whose wrath the nations cannot endure.

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is too stupid to know; every artisan is put to shame by his idol: He has molded a fraud, without breath of life.

Mark 12:29

Jesus replied, “The first is this: ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone!

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing this? We are of the same nature as you, human beings. We proclaim to you good news that you should turn from these idols to the living God, ‘who made heaven and earth and sea and all that is in them.’

Acts 15:20

but tell them by letter to avoid pollution from idols, unlawful marriage, the meat of strangled animals, and blood.

Acts 19:26

As you can now see and hear, not only in Ephesus but throughout most of the province of Asia this Paul has persuaded and misled a great number of people by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now in regard to meat sacrificed to idols: we realize that “all of us have knowledge”; knowledge inflates with pride, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:10

If someone sees you, with your knowledge, reclining at table in the temple of an idol, may not his conscience too, weak as it is, be “built up” to eat the meat sacrificed to idols?

1 Corinthians 8:11

Thus through your knowledge, the weak person is brought to destruction, the brother for whom Christ died.

Galatians 4:8

At a time when you did not know God, you became slaves to things that by nature are not gods;

Ephesians 4:6

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. Diversity of Gifts.

Deuteronomy 3:24

“Lord God, you have begun to show to your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. What god in heaven or on earth can perform deeds and powerful acts like yours?

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I, I alone, am he, and there is no god besides me. It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them, and from my hand no one can deliver.

Deuteronomy 4:35

All this you were allowed to see that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other.

Deuteronomy 4:39

This is why you must now acknowledge, and fix in your heart, that the Lord is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other.

Deuteronomy 6:4

Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone!

1 Timothy 1:17

To the king of ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Responsibility of Timothy.

1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God. There is also one mediator between God and the human race, Christ Jesus, himself human,

Jude 1:25

to the only God, our savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord be glory, majesty, power, and authority from ages past, now, and for ages to come. Amen.