²⁹ “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.^[a]

⁴ Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.^[a](A)

²⁰ A mediator,^(A) however, implies more than one party; but God is one.

²⁷ He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’^[a];^(A) and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[b]”^(B)

³⁰ since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.^(A)

²⁵ to the only God^(A) our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore!^(B) Amen.^(C)

¹⁹ You believe that there is one God.^(A) Good! Even the demons believe that^(B)—and shudder.

⁴ So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols:^(A) We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world”^(B) and that “There is no God but one.”^(C)

⁵ For there is one God^(A) and one mediator^(B) between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,^(C)