1 Corinthians 8:4 Some people say, quite rightly, that idols have no actual existence, that there’s nothing to them, that there is no God other than our one God, that no matte...

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The Message - Some people say, quite rightly, that idols have no actual existence, that there’s nothing to them, that there is no God other than our one God, that no matter how many of these so-called gods are named and worshiped they still don’t add up to anything but a tall story. They say—again, quite rightly—that there is only one God the Father, that everything comes from him, and that he wants us to live for him. Also, they say that there is only one Master—Jesus the Messiah—and that everything is for his sake, including us. Yes. It’s true.
新标点和合本 - 论到吃祭偶像之物，我们知道偶像在世上算不得什么，也知道　神只有一位，再没有别的　神。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 关于吃祭过偶像的食物，我们知道“偶像在世上算不得什么”；也知道“上帝只有一位，没有别的”。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 关于吃祭过偶像的食物，我们知道“偶像在世上算不得什么”；也知道“　神只有一位，没有别的”。
当代译本 - 关于吃祭过偶像的食物，我们知道世上的偶像算不得什么，只有一位上帝，此外别无他神。
圣经新译本 - 关于吃祭过偶像的食物，我们知道世上的偶像算不得什么，也知道　神只有一位，没有别的神。
中文标准译本 - 关于吃祭过偶像的食物，我们知道“世界上的偶像是虚无的”，也知道“除了神一位之外，没有别的神。”
现代标点和合本 - 论到吃祭偶像之物，我们知道偶像在世上算不得什么，也知道神只有一位，再没有别的神。
和合本（拼音版） - 论到吃祭偶像之物，我们知道偶像在世上算不得什么；也知道神只有一位，再没有别的神。
New International Version - So then, 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.”
New International Reader's Version - So then, here is what I say about eating food sacrificed to statues of gods. We know that “a god made by human hands is really nothing at all in the world.” We know that “there is only one God.”
English Standard Version - Therefore, 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.”
New Living Translation - So, what about eating meat that has been offered to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that there is only one God.
Christian Standard Bible - About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”
New American Standard Bible - Therefore, concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
New King James Version - Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
Amplified Bible - In this matter, then, of eating food offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world [it has no real existence], and that there is no God but one.
American Standard Version - Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.
King James Version - As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
New English Translation - With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.”
World English Bible - Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
新標點和合本 - 論到吃祭偶像之物，我們知道偶像在世上算不得甚麼，也知道神只有一位，再沒有別的神。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 關於吃祭過偶像的食物，我們知道「偶像在世上算不得甚麼」；也知道「上帝只有一位，沒有別的」。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 關於吃祭過偶像的食物，我們知道「偶像在世上算不得甚麼」；也知道「　神只有一位，沒有別的」。
當代譯本 - 關於吃祭過偶像的食物，我們知道世上的偶像算不得什麼，只有一位上帝，此外別無他神。
聖經新譯本 - 關於吃祭過偶像的食物，我們知道世上的偶像算不得甚麼，也知道　神只有一位，沒有別的神。
呂振中譯本 - 所以論到喫祭偶像之物這一件事、我們知道偶像在世上算不了甚麼，也知道除了一位上帝以外、沒有別的上帝。
中文標準譯本 - 關於吃祭過偶像的食物，我們知道「世界上的偶像是虛無的」，也知道「除了神一位之外，沒有別的神。」
現代標點和合本 - 論到吃祭偶像之物，我們知道偶像在世上算不得什麼，也知道神只有一位，再沒有別的神。
文理和合譯本 - 夫食祭像之物、我知在世之像為虛、上帝乃獨一無他、
文理委辦譯本 - 諭食祭偶像之物、吾知宇宙間、無有主偶像者、亦知上帝獨一無他、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 論及食祭偶像之物、我儕知偶像在世間為虛無、亦知天主獨一無他、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 關於祭肉問題、吾人固知偶像皆屬子虛烏有；亦知天主之外更無真神。
Nueva Versión Internacional - De modo que, en cuanto a comer lo sacrificado a los ídolos, sabemos que un ídolo no es absolutamente nada, y que hay un solo Dios.
현대인의 성경 - 그러므로 우상의 제물을 먹는 일에 대해서 우리는 우상이라는 것이 세상에서 아무것도 아니며 하나님은 한 분밖에 없는 줄로 알고 있습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Итак, о пище, принесенной в жертву идолам. Всем нам известно, что идолы, которым мир поклоняется, ничего не значат, и что нет другого Бога, кроме Единого.
Восточный перевод - Итак, о пище, принесённой в жертву идолам. Всем нам известно, что идолы, которым мир поклоняется, ничего не значат, и что нет другого Бога, кроме Единого.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Итак, о пище, принесённой в жертву идолам. Всем нам известно, что идолы, которым мир поклоняется, ничего не значат, и что нет другого Бога, кроме Единого.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Итак, о пище, принесённой в жертву идолам. Всем нам известно, что идолы, которым мир поклоняется, ничего не значат, и что нет другого Бога, кроме Единого.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Qu’en est-il donc de la question de la consommation des viandes sacrifiées aux idoles ? Nous savons qu’il n’existe pas d’idoles dans le monde et qu’il n’y a qu’un seul Dieu.
リビングバイブル - では、この問題はどうなるでしょう。偶像に供えた肉を食べてもよいのでしょうか。私たちはみな、偶像など実際には神ではなく、神様はおひとりだけで、ほかにはいないことを知っています。
Nestle Aland 28 - Περὶ τῆς βρώσεως οὖν τῶν εἰδωλοθύτων, οἴδαμεν ὅτι οὐδὲν εἴδωλον ἐν κόσμῳ καὶ ὅτι οὐδεὶς θεὸς εἰ μὴ εἷς.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - περὶ τῆς βρώσεως οὖν τῶν εἰδωλοθύτων, οἴδαμεν ὅτι οὐδὲν εἴδωλον ἐν κόσμῳ, καὶ ὅτι οὐδεὶς Θεὸς εἰ μὴ εἷς.
Nova Versão Internacional - Portanto, em relação ao alimento sacrificado aos ídolos, sabemos que o ídolo não significa nada no mundo e que só existe um Deus.
Hoffnung für alle - Dürfen wir also Opferfleisch essen oder nicht? Ihr habt recht, wenn ihr sagt: »Es gibt außer dem einen Gott gar keine anderen Götter.«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Tôi nói đến việc ăn của cúng thần tượng, chúng ta biết thần tượng khắp thế giới đều không có thật, chỉ Đức Chúa Trời là Đấng Duy Nhất.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ดังนั้นแล้วเกี่ยวกับการกินอาหารที่ได้เซ่นไหว้รูปเคารพ เรารู้อยู่ว่ารูปเคารพนั้นไม่มีความหมายอะไรในโลกนี้และมีพระเจ้าแต่เพียงองค์เดียวเท่านั้น
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เรื่องการรับประทานอาหารที่บูชาแก่รูปเคารพแล้ว เราทราบว่ารูปเคารพไม่มีความหมายในโลก และมีพระเจ้าแท้เพียงองค์เดียวเท่านั้น

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1 Corinthians 8:1 - The question keeps coming up regarding meat that has been offered up to an idol: Should you attend meals where such meat is served, or not? We sometimes tend to think we know all we need to know to answer these kinds of questions—but sometimes our humble hearts can help us more than our proud minds. We never really know enough until we recognize that God alone knows it all.
1 Corinthians 8:10 - For instance, say you flaunt your freedom by going to a banquet thrown in honor of idols, where the main course is meat sacrificed to idols. Isn’t there great danger if someone still struggling over this issue, someone who looks up to you as knowledgeable and mature, sees you go into that banquet? The danger is that he will become terribly confused—maybe even to the point of getting mixed up himself in what his conscience tells him is wrong.
Habakkuk 2:20 - “But oh! God is in his holy Temple! Quiet everyone—a holy silence. Listen!”
Isaiah 45:14 - God says: “The workers of Egypt, the merchants of Ethiopia, and those statuesque Sabeans Will all come over to you—all yours. Docile in chains, they’ll follow you, Hands folded in reverence, praying before you: ‘Amazing! God is with you! There is no other God—none.’”
Deuteronomy 4:35 - You were shown all this so that you would know that God is, well, God. He’s the only God there is. He’s it. He made it possible for you to hear his voice out of Heaven to discipline you. Down on Earth, he showed you the big fire and again you heard his words, this time out of the fire. He loved your ancestors and chose to work with their children. He personally and powerfully brought you out of Egypt in order to displace bigger and stronger and older nations with you, bringing you out and turning their land over to you as an inheritance. And now it’s happening. This very day.
1 Corinthians 8:7 - In strict logic, then, nothing happened to the meat when it was offered up to an idol. It’s just like any other meat. I know that, and you know that. But knowing isn’t everything. If it becomes everything, some people end up as know-it-alls who treat others as know-nothings. Real knowledge isn’t that insensitive. We need to be sensitive to the fact that we’re not all at the same level of understanding in this. Some of you have spent your entire lives eating “idol meat,” and are sure that there’s something bad in the meat that then becomes something bad inside of you. An imagination and conscience shaped under those conditions isn’t going to change overnight.
Isaiah 44:9 - All those who make no-god idols don’t amount to a thing, and what they work so hard at making is nothing. Their little puppet-gods see nothing and know nothing—they’re total embarrassments! Who would bother making gods that can’t do anything, that can’t “god”? Watch all the no-god worshipers hide their faces in shame. Watch the no-god makers slink off humiliated when their idols fail them. Get them out here in the open. Make them face God-reality.
1 Corinthians 10:19 - Do you see the difference? Sacrifices offered to idols are offered to nothing, for what’s the idol but a nothing? Or worse than nothing, a minus, a demon! I don’t want you to become part of something that reduces you to less than yourself. And you can’t have it both ways, banqueting with the Master one day and slumming with demons the next. Besides, the Master won’t put up with it. He wants us—all or nothing. Do you think you can get off with anything less?
Jeremiah 10:10 - But God is the real thing— the living God, the eternal King. When he’s angry, Earth shakes. Yes, and the godless nations quake.
Deuteronomy 32:39 - “Do you see it now? Do you see that I’m the one? Do you see that there’s no other god beside me? I bring death and I give life, I wound and I heal— there is no getting away from or around me! I raise my hand in solemn oath; I say, ‘I’m always around. By that very life I promise: When I sharpen my lightning sword and execute judgment, I take vengeance on my enemies and pay back those who hate me. I’ll make my arrows drunk with blood, my sword will gorge itself on flesh, Feasting on slain and captive alike, the proud and vain enemy corpses.’”
Mark 12:29 - Jesus said, “The first in importance is, ‘Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.’ And here is the second: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ There is no other commandment that ranks with these.”
Isaiah 44:24 - God, your Redeemer, who shaped your life in your mother’s womb, says: “I am God. I made all that is. With no help from you I spread out the skies and laid out the earth.”
Isaiah 44:6 - God, King of Israel, your Redeemer, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, says: “I’m first, I’m last, and everything in between. I’m the only God there is. Who compares with me? Speak up. See if you measure up. From the beginning, who else has always announced what’s coming? So what is coming next? Anybody want to venture a try? Don’t be afraid, and don’t worry: Haven’t I always kept you informed, told you what was going on? You’re my eyewitnesses: Have you ever come across a God, a real God, other than me? There’s no Rock like me that I know of.”
Deuteronomy 6:4 - Attention, Israel! God, our God! God the one and only!
Deuteronomy 4:39 - Know this well, then. Take it to heart right now: God is in Heaven above; God is on Earth below. He’s the only God there is. Obediently live by his rules and commands which I’m giving you today so that you’ll live well and your children after you—oh, you’ll live a long time in the land that God, your God, is giving you. * * *

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The Message - Some people say, quite rightly, that idols have no actual existence, that there’s nothing to them, that there is no God other than our one God, that no matter how many of these so-called gods are named and worshiped they still don’t add up to anything but a tall story. They say—again, quite rightly—that there is only one God the Father, that everything comes from him, and that he wants us to live for him. Also, they say that there is only one Master—Jesus the Messiah—and that everything is for his sake, including us. Yes. It’s true.
新标点和合本 - 论到吃祭偶像之物，我们知道偶像在世上算不得什么，也知道　神只有一位，再没有别的　神。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 关于吃祭过偶像的食物，我们知道“偶像在世上算不得什么”；也知道“上帝只有一位，没有别的”。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 关于吃祭过偶像的食物，我们知道“偶像在世上算不得什么”；也知道“　神只有一位，没有别的”。
当代译本 - 关于吃祭过偶像的食物，我们知道世上的偶像算不得什么，只有一位上帝，此外别无他神。
圣经新译本 - 关于吃祭过偶像的食物，我们知道世上的偶像算不得什么，也知道　神只有一位，没有别的神。
中文标准译本 - 关于吃祭过偶像的食物，我们知道“世界上的偶像是虚无的”，也知道“除了神一位之外，没有别的神。”
现代标点和合本 - 论到吃祭偶像之物，我们知道偶像在世上算不得什么，也知道神只有一位，再没有别的神。
和合本（拼音版） - 论到吃祭偶像之物，我们知道偶像在世上算不得什么；也知道神只有一位，再没有别的神。
New International Version - So then, 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.”
New International Reader's Version - So then, here is what I say about eating food sacrificed to statues of gods. We know that “a god made by human hands is really nothing at all in the world.” We know that “there is only one God.”
English Standard Version - Therefore, 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.”
New Living Translation - So, what about eating meat that has been offered to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that there is only one God.
Christian Standard Bible - About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”
New American Standard Bible - Therefore, concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
New King James Version - Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
Amplified Bible - In this matter, then, of eating food offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world [it has no real existence], and that there is no God but one.
American Standard Version - Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.
King James Version - As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
New English Translation - With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.”
World English Bible - Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
新標點和合本 - 論到吃祭偶像之物，我們知道偶像在世上算不得甚麼，也知道神只有一位，再沒有別的神。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 關於吃祭過偶像的食物，我們知道「偶像在世上算不得甚麼」；也知道「上帝只有一位，沒有別的」。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 關於吃祭過偶像的食物，我們知道「偶像在世上算不得甚麼」；也知道「　神只有一位，沒有別的」。
當代譯本 - 關於吃祭過偶像的食物，我們知道世上的偶像算不得什麼，只有一位上帝，此外別無他神。
聖經新譯本 - 關於吃祭過偶像的食物，我們知道世上的偶像算不得甚麼，也知道　神只有一位，沒有別的神。
呂振中譯本 - 所以論到喫祭偶像之物這一件事、我們知道偶像在世上算不了甚麼，也知道除了一位上帝以外、沒有別的上帝。
中文標準譯本 - 關於吃祭過偶像的食物，我們知道「世界上的偶像是虛無的」，也知道「除了神一位之外，沒有別的神。」
現代標點和合本 - 論到吃祭偶像之物，我們知道偶像在世上算不得什麼，也知道神只有一位，再沒有別的神。
文理和合譯本 - 夫食祭像之物、我知在世之像為虛、上帝乃獨一無他、
文理委辦譯本 - 諭食祭偶像之物、吾知宇宙間、無有主偶像者、亦知上帝獨一無他、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 論及食祭偶像之物、我儕知偶像在世間為虛無、亦知天主獨一無他、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 關於祭肉問題、吾人固知偶像皆屬子虛烏有；亦知天主之外更無真神。
Nueva Versión Internacional - De modo que, en cuanto a comer lo sacrificado a los ídolos, sabemos que un ídolo no es absolutamente nada, y que hay un solo Dios.
현대인의 성경 - 그러므로 우상의 제물을 먹는 일에 대해서 우리는 우상이라는 것이 세상에서 아무것도 아니며 하나님은 한 분밖에 없는 줄로 알고 있습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Итак, о пище, принесенной в жертву идолам. Всем нам известно, что идолы, которым мир поклоняется, ничего не значат, и что нет другого Бога, кроме Единого.
Восточный перевод - Итак, о пище, принесённой в жертву идолам. Всем нам известно, что идолы, которым мир поклоняется, ничего не значат, и что нет другого Бога, кроме Единого.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Итак, о пище, принесённой в жертву идолам. Всем нам известно, что идолы, которым мир поклоняется, ничего не значат, и что нет другого Бога, кроме Единого.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Итак, о пище, принесённой в жертву идолам. Всем нам известно, что идолы, которым мир поклоняется, ничего не значат, и что нет другого Бога, кроме Единого.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Qu’en est-il donc de la question de la consommation des viandes sacrifiées aux idoles ? Nous savons qu’il n’existe pas d’idoles dans le monde et qu’il n’y a qu’un seul Dieu.
リビングバイブル - では、この問題はどうなるでしょう。偶像に供えた肉を食べてもよいのでしょうか。私たちはみな、偶像など実際には神ではなく、神様はおひとりだけで、ほかにはいないことを知っています。
Nestle Aland 28 - Περὶ τῆς βρώσεως οὖν τῶν εἰδωλοθύτων, οἴδαμεν ὅτι οὐδὲν εἴδωλον ἐν κόσμῳ καὶ ὅτι οὐδεὶς θεὸς εἰ μὴ εἷς.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - περὶ τῆς βρώσεως οὖν τῶν εἰδωλοθύτων, οἴδαμεν ὅτι οὐδὲν εἴδωλον ἐν κόσμῳ, καὶ ὅτι οὐδεὶς Θεὸς εἰ μὴ εἷς.
Nova Versão Internacional - Portanto, em relação ao alimento sacrificado aos ídolos, sabemos que o ídolo não significa nada no mundo e que só existe um Deus.
Hoffnung für alle - Dürfen wir also Opferfleisch essen oder nicht? Ihr habt recht, wenn ihr sagt: »Es gibt außer dem einen Gott gar keine anderen Götter.«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Tôi nói đến việc ăn của cúng thần tượng, chúng ta biết thần tượng khắp thế giới đều không có thật, chỉ Đức Chúa Trời là Đấng Duy Nhất.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ดังนั้นแล้วเกี่ยวกับการกินอาหารที่ได้เซ่นไหว้รูปเคารพ เรารู้อยู่ว่ารูปเคารพนั้นไม่มีความหมายอะไรในโลกนี้และมีพระเจ้าแต่เพียงองค์เดียวเท่านั้น
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เรื่องการรับประทานอาหารที่บูชาแก่รูปเคารพแล้ว เราทราบว่ารูปเคารพไม่มีความหมายในโลก และมีพระเจ้าแท้เพียงองค์เดียวเท่านั้น

1 Corinthians 8:1 - The question keeps coming up regarding meat that has been offered up to an idol: Should you attend meals where such meat is served, or not? We sometimes tend to think we know all we need to know to answer these kinds of questions—but sometimes our humble hearts can help us more than our proud minds. We never really know enough until we recognize that God alone knows it all.
1 Corinthians 8:10 - For instance, say you flaunt your freedom by going to a banquet thrown in honor of idols, where the main course is meat sacrificed to idols. Isn’t there great danger if someone still struggling over this issue, someone who looks up to you as knowledgeable and mature, sees you go into that banquet? The danger is that he will become terribly confused—maybe even to the point of getting mixed up himself in what his conscience tells him is wrong.
Habakkuk 2:20 - “But oh! God is in his holy Temple! Quiet everyone—a holy silence. Listen!”
Isaiah 45:14 - God says: “The workers of Egypt, the merchants of Ethiopia, and those statuesque Sabeans Will all come over to you—all yours. Docile in chains, they’ll follow you, Hands folded in reverence, praying before you: ‘Amazing! God is with you! There is no other God—none.’”
Deuteronomy 4:35 - You were shown all this so that you would know that God is, well, God. He’s the only God there is. He’s it. He made it possible for you to hear his voice out of Heaven to discipline you. Down on Earth, he showed you the big fire and again you heard his words, this time out of the fire. He loved your ancestors and chose to work with their children. He personally and powerfully brought you out of Egypt in order to displace bigger and stronger and older nations with you, bringing you out and turning their land over to you as an inheritance. And now it’s happening. This very day.
1 Corinthians 8:7 - In strict logic, then, nothing happened to the meat when it was offered up to an idol. It’s just like any other meat. I know that, and you know that. But knowing isn’t everything. If it becomes everything, some people end up as know-it-alls who treat others as know-nothings. Real knowledge isn’t that insensitive. We need to be sensitive to the fact that we’re not all at the same level of understanding in this. Some of you have spent your entire lives eating “idol meat,” and are sure that there’s something bad in the meat that then becomes something bad inside of you. An imagination and conscience shaped under those conditions isn’t going to change overnight.
Isaiah 44:9 - All those who make no-god idols don’t amount to a thing, and what they work so hard at making is nothing. Their little puppet-gods see nothing and know nothing—they’re total embarrassments! Who would bother making gods that can’t do anything, that can’t “god”? Watch all the no-god worshipers hide their faces in shame. Watch the no-god makers slink off humiliated when their idols fail them. Get them out here in the open. Make them face God-reality.
1 Corinthians 10:19 - Do you see the difference? Sacrifices offered to idols are offered to nothing, for what’s the idol but a nothing? Or worse than nothing, a minus, a demon! I don’t want you to become part of something that reduces you to less than yourself. And you can’t have it both ways, banqueting with the Master one day and slumming with demons the next. Besides, the Master won’t put up with it. He wants us—all or nothing. Do you think you can get off with anything less?
Jeremiah 10:10 - But God is the real thing— the living God, the eternal King. When he’s angry, Earth shakes. Yes, and the godless nations quake.
Deuteronomy 32:39 - “Do you see it now? Do you see that I’m the one? Do you see that there’s no other god beside me? I bring death and I give life, I wound and I heal— there is no getting away from or around me! I raise my hand in solemn oath; I say, ‘I’m always around. By that very life I promise: When I sharpen my lightning sword and execute judgment, I take vengeance on my enemies and pay back those who hate me. I’ll make my arrows drunk with blood, my sword will gorge itself on flesh, Feasting on slain and captive alike, the proud and vain enemy corpses.’”
Mark 12:29 - Jesus said, “The first in importance is, ‘Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.’ And here is the second: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ There is no other commandment that ranks with these.”
Isaiah 44:24 - God, your Redeemer, who shaped your life in your mother’s womb, says: “I am God. I made all that is. With no help from you I spread out the skies and laid out the earth.”
Isaiah 44:6 - God, King of Israel, your Redeemer, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, says: “I’m first, I’m last, and everything in between. I’m the only God there is. Who compares with me? Speak up. See if you measure up. From the beginning, who else has always announced what’s coming? So what is coming next? Anybody want to venture a try? Don’t be afraid, and don’t worry: Haven’t I always kept you informed, told you what was going on? You’re my eyewitnesses: Have you ever come across a God, a real God, other than me? There’s no Rock like me that I know of.”
Deuteronomy 6:4 - Attention, Israel! God, our God! God the one and only!
Deuteronomy 4:39 - Know this well, then. Take it to heart right now: God is in Heaven above; God is on Earth below. He’s the only God there is. Obediently live by his rules and commands which I’m giving you today so that you’ll live well and your children after you—oh, you’ll live a long time in the land that God, your God, is giving you. * * *