1 Corinthians 8:5 “For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (a…”

1 Corinthians 8:5

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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”—

American Standard Version

For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;

Geneva Bible 1599

For though there bee that are called gods, whether in heauen, or in earth (as there be many gods, and many lords)

Darby Translation

For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)

Young's Literal Translation

for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth — as there are gods many and lords many —

Bible in Basic English

For though there are those who have the name of gods, in heaven or on earth, as there are a number of gods and a number of lords,

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Cross references

“that”

Jeremiah 2:28 Galatians 4:8 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Deuteronomy 10:17 Jeremiah 2:11 Jeremiah 11:13

Jeremiah 2:28 · BSB

But 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.

Galatians 4:8 · BSB

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

2 Thessalonians 2:4 · BSB

He 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.

Deuteronomy 10:17 · BSB

For 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 2:11 · BSB

Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

Jeremiah 11:13 · BSB

Your 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.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4So 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.

6yet 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.

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