1 Corinthians 8:4
Good News Translation
So then, about eating the food offered to idols: we know that an idol stands for something that does not really exist; we know that there is only the one God.

New Revised Standard Version
Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Contemporary English Version
Even though food is offered to idols, we know that none of the idols in this world are alive. After all, there is only one God.

New American Bible
So about the eating of meat sacrificed to idols: we know that “there is no idol in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.

we know.

1 Corinthians 10:19,20 What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing? . . .

Psalm 115:4-8 The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men. . . .

Isaiah 41:24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.

Isaiah 44:8,9 Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled from that time I have made thee to hear, and have declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me, a maker, whom I have not known? . . .

Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.

Jeremiah 51:17,18 Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is confounded by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is no breath in them. . . .

Habakkuk 2:19,20 Woe to him that saith to wood: Awake: to the dumb stone: Arise: can it teach? Behold, it is laid over with gold, and silver, and there is no spirit in the bowels thereof. . . .

Acts 19:26 And you see and hear that this Paul, by persuasion hath drawn away a great multitude, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying: they are not gods which are made by hands.

there is.

1 Corinthians 8:6 Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

Deuteronomy 3:24 Lord God, thou hast begun to shew unto thy servant thy greatness, and most mighty hand, for there is no other God either in heaven or earth, that is able to do thy works, or to be compared to thy strength.

Deuteronomy 4:39 Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no other.

Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.

Deuteronomy 32:39 See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Isaiah 37:16,20 Lord of hosts, God of Israel who sitteth upon the cherubims, thou alone art the God of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou hast made heaven and earth. . . .

Isaiah 44:6,8,24 Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God. . . .

Isaiah 45:5,14 I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known 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 shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening.

Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God.

Ephesians 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.

1 Timothy 1:17 Now to the king of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:

Jude 1:25 To the only God our Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory and magnificence, empire and power, before all ages, and now, and for all ages of ages. Amen.

Context
Food Sacrificed to Idols
3But if any man love God, the same is known by him. 4But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one. 5For although there be that are called gods, either in heaven or on earth (for there be gods many and lords many):…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:35
That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.

Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no other.

Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.

Psalm 86:10
For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.

Isaiah 41:24
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.

Acts 14:15
And saying: Ye men, why do ye these things? We also are mortals, men like unto you, preaching to you to be converted from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them:

Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.

Acts 19:26
And you see and hear that this Paul, by persuasion hath drawn away a great multitude, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying: they are not gods which are made by hands.

1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up: but charity edifieth.

1 Corinthians 8:6
Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

1 Corinthians 8:7
But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this present, with conscience of the idol, eat as a thing sacrificed to an idol: and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

1 Corinthians 8:10
For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols?

1 Corinthians 8:11
And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ hath died?

1 Corinthians 10:19
What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing?

Galatians 4:8
But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them who, by nature, are not gods.

1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:

1 Corinthians 8:3
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