1 Corinthians 8:4

New English Translation

With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Cross References

Psalm 86:10

For you are great and do amazing things. You alone are God.

Isaiah 37:16

“O Lord who commands armies, O God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubim! You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky and the earth.

Isaiah 37:20

Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.”

Isaiah 41:24

Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.

Isaiah 44:24

This is what the Lord, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb: “I am the Lord, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,

Isaiah 44:6

This is what the Lord, Israel’s king, says, their protector, the Lord who commands armies: “I am the first and I am the last, there is no God but me.

Isaiah 45:14

This is what the Lord says: “The profit of Egypt and the revenue of Ethiopia, along with the Sabeans, those tall men, will be brought to you and become yours. They will walk behind you, coming along in chains. They will bow down to you and pray to you: ‘Truly God is with you; he has no peer; there is no other God!’”

Isaiah 45:5

I am the Lord, I have no peer, there is no God but me. I arm you for battle, even though you do not recognize me.

Jeremiah 10:10

The Lord is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury.

Jeremiah 10:14

All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

Mark 12:29

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

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

Acts 15:20

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

Acts 19:26

And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.

1 Corinthians 8:1

With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:10

For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be “strengthened” to eat food offered to idols?

1 Corinthians 8:11

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

Galatians 4:8

Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

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 begun to show me your greatness and strength. (What god in heaven or earth can rival your works and mighty deeds?)

Deuteronomy 32:39

“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, “and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.

Deuteronomy 4:35

You have been taught that the Lord alone is God – there is no other besides him.

Deuteronomy 4:39

Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other!

Deuteronomy 6:4

Listen, Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!

1 Timothy 1:17

Now to the eternal king, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God and one intermediary between God and humanity, Christ Jesus, himself human,

Jude 1:25

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