1 Corinthians 8:5

3 But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.

4 Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that ^aan idol is nothing in the world, ^band that there is no other God but one.

5 For even if there are ^aso-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

6 yet ^afor us there is one God, the Father, ^bof whom are all things, and we for Him; and ^cone Lord Jesus Christ, ^dthrough whom are all things, and ^ethrough whom we live.

7 However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, ^awith consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is ^bdefiled.

8 But ^afood does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.

9 But ^abeware lest somehow this liberty of yours become ^ba stumbling block to those who are weak.

10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not ^athe conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?

11 And ^abecause of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

12 But ^awhen you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

Verse Comparison: 1 Corinthians 8:5

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American Standard Version
For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;

Amplified® Bible
For although there may be so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many of them, both of gods and of lords {and} masters,

Contemporary English Version
Many things in heaven and on earth are called gods and lords, but none of them really are gods or lords.

Darby English Version
For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)

Good News Bible
Even if there are so-called "gods," whether in heaven or on earth, and even though there are many of these "gods" and "lords,"

International Standard Version
For even if there are "gods" in heaven and on earth (as indeed there are many so-called "gods" and "lords"),

King James Version
For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

New American Standard Bible
For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords,

New International Version
For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"),

New King James Version
For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
For even if people have so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed people have many gods and many lords,

Young's Literal Translation
for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth -- as there are gods many and lords many --

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