Psalm 81:9
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9 There shall be no strange god among you;
you shall not bow down to a foreign god.(A)
Isaiah 43:12
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12 I am the one who declared and saved and proclaimed,
not some strange god among you;
you are my witnesses, says the Lord, and I am God.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:12
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12 the Lord alone guided him;
no foreign god was with him.(A)
1 Corinthians 8:5-6
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5 Indeed, even though there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as in fact there are many gods and many lords— 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.(A)
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Deuteronomy 6:14
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14 Do not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who are all around you,
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Malachi 2:11
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11 Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.(A)
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Psalm 44:20
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20 If we had forgotten the name of our God
or spread out our hands to a strange god,(A)
Exodus 20:3-5
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3 you shall have no other gods before[a] me.(A)
4 “You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.(B) 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me(C)
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