Having Other Gods

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, — read the full passage →

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, — read the full passage →

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me,Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

We love him, because he first loved us.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. — read the full passage →

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”