About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

You both see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods!

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

But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

If He called those whom the word of God came to ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

They told Aaron:

Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the form of men!”

There is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.

But as it is written:

What eye did not see and ear did not hear,
and what never entered the human mind—
God prepared this for those who love Him.