Psalm 96:5

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Summary

Psalm 96:5

For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

For

1 Corinthians 8:4

But

Bible References

For

But our God is in heaven;
He does whatever He pleases.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.

‘Do not tremble nor be afraid [of the violent upheavals to come];
Have I not long ago proclaimed it to you and declared it?
And you are My witnesses.
Is there a God besides Me?
There is no other Rock;
I know of none.’”

Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;
Their idols are on the beasts [of burden] and on the cattle.
Your burdens [of idols] are loaded [on them],
Burdens on the weary animals.

For the customs and decrees of the peoples are [mere] delusion [exercises in futility];
It is only wood which one cuts from the forest [to make a god],
The work of the hands of the craftsman with the axe or cutting tool.

You see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but almost all over [the province of] Asia, this Paul has persuaded [people to believe his teaching] and has misled a large number of people, claiming that gods made by [human] hands are not really gods at all.

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.

But

May you be blessed of the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.

In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.

This is what God the Lord says,

He who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread out the earth and its produce,
Who gives breath to the people on it
And spirit to those who walk on it,

In this manner you shall say to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”