Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in your law, 'I said, ye are gods?'

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

saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods who shall go before us; for as for this Moses who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what happened to him.'

And the multitudes, seeing what Paul did, lifted up their voice in the language of Lycaonia, saying, "The gods, made like to men, came down to us!"

And some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were encountering him. And some said, "What would this babbler wish to say?" And others said, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods;" because he proclaimed the good tidings of Jesus and the resurrection.

And ye perceive and hear that, not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this Paul, having persuaded, turned away a great multitude, saying, that they are not gods that are made with hands.

For, even if there are things called gods, whether in heaven, or on earth (as there are gods many, and lords many);

But then, indeed, when ye knew not God, ye served those which by nature are no gods;