With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol in this world is nothing," and that "there is no God but one."

And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.

If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

If those people to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),