Psalm 96:5

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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 has done whatever was pleasing to him.

The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?

Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.

For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.

And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:

So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

But

May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:

This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.