And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that gods made with hands are no gods at all.

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods.

Therefore concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

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

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),