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1 Corinthians 8:5
1 Corinthians 8:5 is verse 5 of 1 Corinthians chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),
King James Version
For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
World English Bible
For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
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1 Corinthians 8:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 But the one who loves God is known by God.
4 So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),
6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.
7 But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 10:17For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
Jeremiah 2:11Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
Jeremiah 2:28But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
Jeremiah 11:13Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’
Daniel 5:4As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
John 10:34Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’?
John 10:35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
Galatians 4:8Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
2 Thessalonians 2:4He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.