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 except one."

and you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this man Paul has persuaded [and] turned away a large crowd [by] saying that the [gods] made by hands are not gods.

For even if after all [there] are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, just as [there] are many gods and many lords,

No one who is being tempted should say, "I am being tempted by God," for God {cannot be tempted} by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

If he called them 'gods' to whom the word of God came--and the scripture cannot be broken--

But at that time [when you] did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods.