17 Bible Verses about Men As Gods

For God knows that on the day you [both] eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you [both] shall be like gods, knowing good and evil."

And Yahweh God said, "Look--the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. {What if} he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?"

And [when] the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices in the Lycaonian language, saying, "The gods have become like men [and] have come down to us!"

But they were expecting [that] he was going to swell up or suddenly to fall down dead. So [after] they had waited for a long [time] and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds [and] began saying [that] he was a god.

"Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because your heart was haughty, and you said, 'I [am] a god; I sit [in the] seat of [the] gods, I sit in [the] heart of [the] seas!' But you are a human, not a god, and you gave your heart to be like [the] heart of a god.

{Will you indeed still say} "I [am] a god!" before the face of your killers? And [in fact] you [are] a human and not a god in the hand of {those who pierce you}.

But the people began to call out loudly, "The voice of a god and not of a man!"

Then they sweep [like the] wind and pass on; they become guilty, whose might [is] their god!"

And Jacob {became angry} with Rachel. And he said, "[Am] I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

Then Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for [am] I in the place of God?

And he will speak for you to the people, {and then} he will be to you as a mouth, and you will be to him as a god.

And Yahweh said to Moses, "See, I have made you [as] a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.

God stands in the divine assembly; he administers judgment in the midst of [the] gods.

I have said, "You [are] gods, and sons of the Most High, all of you.

Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?

Do you really speak [what is] right [when] silent? [Do] you judge fairly the children of humankind?

If he called them 'gods' to whom the word of God came--and the scripture cannot be broken--