James 2:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear.

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 4:34 : 34 Let us be! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I have knowledge who you are, the Holy One of God.
  • Acts 16:17 : 17 She came after Paul and us, crying out and saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are giving you news of the way of salvation.
  • Matt 8:29 : 29 And they gave a loud cry, saying, What have we to do with you, you Son of God? Have you come here to give us punishment before the time?
  • Mark 1:24 : 24 Saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I see well who you are, the Holy One of God.
  • Mark 5:7 : 7 And crying out with a loud voice he said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name, do not be cruel to me.
  • Isa 46:9 : 9 Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me;
  • Zech 14:9 : 9 And the Lord will be King over all the earth: in that day there will be one Lord and his name one.
  • Deut 6:4 : 4 Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:
  • Isa 43:10 : 10 You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.
  • Isa 44:6 : 6 The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.
  • Isa 44:8 : 8 Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?
  • Mark 12:29 : 29 Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord;
  • Acts 19:15 : 15 And the evil spirit, answering, said to them, I have knowledge of Jesus, and of Paul, but who are you?
  • Rom 3:30 : 30 If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.
  • 1 Tim 2:5 : 5 For there is one God and one peacemaker between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
  • Gal 3:20 : 20 Now a go-between is not a go-between of one; but God is one.
  • Rev 20:10 : 10 And the Evil One who put them in error was sent down into the sea of ever-burning fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, and their punishment will go on day and night for ever and ever.
  • Jas 2:8 : 8 But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
  • 1 Cor 8:6 : 6 There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.
  • John 17:3 : 3 And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
  • Isa 45:6 : 6 So that they may see from the east and from the west that there is no God but me: I am the Lord, and there is no other.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.
  • Rev 20:2-3 : 2 And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years, 3 And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.
  • Eph 4:5-6 : 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

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    20What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits.

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  • Rom 10:8-10
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