monotheism
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6Thus says the Lord, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and there is no God apart from me.
35So may you know that the Lord himself is God, and there is no other beside him.
4Listen, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord.
10You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and you are my servant, whom I have chosen, so that you may know, and may believe in me, and so that you may understand that I am the same. Before me, there was no god formed, and after me there will be none.
5I am the Lord, and there is no one else. There is no god beside me. I girded you, and you have not known me.
1In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.
29And Jesus answered him: “For the first commandment of all is this: ‘Listen, O Israel. The Lord your God is one God.
10For you are great, and you perform wonders. You alone are God.
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.
3And this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
3You shall not have strange gods before me.
6yet we know that there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things are, and in whom we are, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and by whom we are.
19And let them know that the Lord is your name. You alone are the Most High in all the earth.
26And he said: “Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth.”
39Therefore, know on this day and consider in your heart, that the Lord himself is God in heaven above, and on earth below, and there is no other.
1A Psalm of Asaph. God has stood in the synagogue of gods, but, in their midst, he decides between gods. 2How long will you judge unjustly and favor the faces of sinners? 3Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor. 4Rescue the poor, and free the needy from the hand of the sinner. 5They did not know and did not understand. They wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth will be moved. 6I said: You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High.