What Does the Bible Say About Monotheism?

Isaiah 44:6 ESV / 116 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

Deuteronomy 4:35 ESV / 98 helpful votes

To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 63 helpful votes

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Isaiah 43:10 ESV / 61 helpful votes

“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.

Isaiah 45:5 ESV / 57 helpful votes

I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me,

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 43 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Mark 12:29 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Psalm 86:10 ESV / 30 helpful votes

For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God.

John 1:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 17:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Exodus 20:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes

“You shall have no other gods before me.

1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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.

Psalm 83:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes

That they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.

Deuteronomy 4:39 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Psalm 82:1-8 ESV / 16 helpful votes

A Psalm of Asaph. God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. ...

1 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes

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

Malachi 2:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Ephesians 4:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

John 10:30 ESV / 8 helpful votes

I and the Father are one.”

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Jeremiah 31:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Isaiah 46:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,

Isaiah 45:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Psalm 90:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Psalm 86:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.

Deuteronomy 32:39 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Exodus 18:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people.”

Genesis 1:1-2:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Isaiah 41:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.

James 2:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

Ephesians 4:4-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Proverbs 8:22-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. ...

Psalm 8:1-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. ...

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Exodus 4:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son,

Exodus 3:1-22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” ...

Romans 1:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Psalm 82:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A Psalm of Asaph. God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

Psalm 2:1-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, ...

Job 1:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.

Deuteronomy 32:8-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. But the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.

Deuteronomy 32:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

Genesis 3:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

Revelation 3:3-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. ...

Psalm 95:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

Psalm 82:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

52 Bible Verses about Monotheism

Isaiah 44:6 ESV / 116 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 4:35 ESV / 98 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 63 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 43:10 ESV / 61 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 45:5 ESV / 57 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 43 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 12:29 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 86:10 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 17:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 83:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 4:39 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 82:1-8 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Malachi 2:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 10:30 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 31:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 46:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 45:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 90:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 86:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 32:39 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 18:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1-2:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 41:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 2:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:4-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 8:22-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 8:1-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 4:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 3:1-22 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 82:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 2:1-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 1:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 32:8-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 32:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 3:3-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 95:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 82:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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