1 Corinthians 8:4

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Cross References

Psalm 86:10

For thou art great and doest wondrous things, thou alone art God.

Isaiah 37:16

“O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who art enthroned above the cherubim, thou art the God, thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 37:20

So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou alone art the Lord.”

Isaiah 41:24

Behold, you are nothing, and your work is naught; an abomination is he who chooses you.

Isaiah 44:24

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth—Who was with me? —

Isaiah 44:6

Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

Isaiah 45:14

Thus says the Lord: “The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and be yours, they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will make supplication to you, saying: ‘God is with you only, and there is no other, no god besides him.’ ”

Isaiah 45:5

I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I gird you, though you do not know me,

Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

Jeremiah 10:14

Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Mark 12:29

Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one;

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing this? We also are men, of like nature with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

Acts 15:20

but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood.

Acts 19:26

And you see and hear that not only at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable company of people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” “Knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:10

For if any one sees you, a man of knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, might he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?

1 Corinthians 8:11

And so by your knowledge this weak man is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

Galatians 4:8

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were in bondage to beings that by nature are no gods;

Ephesians 4:6

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

Deuteronomy 3:24

‘O Lord God, thou hast only begun to show thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as thine?

Deuteronomy 32:39

“ ‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Deuteronomy 4:35

To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.

Deuteronomy 4:39

know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.

Deuteronomy 6:4

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord;

1 Timothy 1:17

To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Timothy 2:5

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

Jude 1:25

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