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

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39 know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that (A)the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; (B)there is no other.

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24 Behold, (A)you are nothing,
    and your work is less than nothing;
    an abomination is he who chooses you.

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For (A)there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man[a] Christ Jesus,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 2:5 men and man render the same Greek word that is translated people in verses 1 and 4

(A)one God and Father of all, (B)who is over all and through all and in all.

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“Hear, O Israel: (A)The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 6:4 Or The Lord our God is one Lord; or The Lord is our God, the Lord is one; or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone

19 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that (A)an idol is anything? 20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice (B)they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.

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24 Thus says the Lord, (A)your Redeemer,
    (B)who formed you from the womb:
(C)“I am the Lord, who made all things,
    (D)who alone stretched out the heavens,
    who spread out the earth by myself,

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yet (A)for us there is one God, the Father, (B)from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and (C)one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and (D)through whom we exist.

However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, (E)through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and (F)their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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Fear not, nor be afraid;
    have I not told you from of old and declared it?
    (A)And you are my witnesses!
(B)Is there a God besides me?
    There is no (C)Rock; I know not any.”

The Folly of Idolatry

(D)All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

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Besides Me There Is No God

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

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25 to (A)the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, (B)be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time[a] and now and forever. Amen.

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:25 Or before any age

10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating[a] in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged,[b] if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 8:10 Greek reclining at table
  2. 1 Corinthians 8:10 Or fortified; Greek built up

Food Offered to Idols

Now concerning[a] (A)food offered to idols: we know that (B)“all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” (C)puffs up, (D)but love builds up.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 8:1 The expression Now concerning introduces a reply to a question in the Corinthians' letter; see 7:1

26 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, (A)saying that (B)gods made with hands are not gods.

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15 “Men, (A)why are you doing these things? We also are men, (B)of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that (C)you should turn from these (D)vain things to (E)a living God, (F)who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

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19 (A)Woe to him (B)who says to a wooden thing, Awake;
    to a silent stone, Arise!
Can this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
    and (C)there is no breath at all in it.
20 But (D)the Lord is in his holy temple;
    (E)let all the earth keep silence before him.”

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17 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.
18 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
    at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

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

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

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The Lord, the Only Savior

14 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,
    and the Sabeans, men of stature,
shall come over to you (B)and be yours;
    they shall follow you;
    they shall come over in chains and bow down to you.
They will plead with you, saying:
    ‘Surely God is in you, and there is no other,
    no god besides him.’”

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(A)I am the Lord, and there is no other,
    besides me there is no God;
    (B)I equip you, though you do not know me,

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

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16 “O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, (A)enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; (B)you have made heaven and earth.

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