Bible Verses about “other gods”
The Bible contains 28 verses about other gods across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.”
“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 shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,”
“"You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:”
“"You shall have no other gods before me.”
“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.”
“"I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”
“God spoke all these words, saying,”
“yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.”
“But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.”
“For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"”
“This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: "I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.”
“However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.”
“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.”
“Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?”
“But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.”
“Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.”
“But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.”
“"Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.”
“Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,”
“They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, to gods that they didn't know, to new [gods] that came up of late, which your fathers didn't dread.”
“But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.”
“You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;”
“The Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.”
“When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. They took Dagon, and set him in his place again.”
“When they arose early on the next day morning, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [lay] cut off on the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to him.”
“Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any who come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, to this day.”
“When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us; for his hand is severe on us, and on Dagon our god."”