17 Bible Verses about Men As Gods

For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voice, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have become like men and have come down to us.”

But they were expecting that he was about to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“Because your heart is lifted up
And you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of gods
In the heart of the seas’;
Yet you are a man and not God,
Although you make your heart like the heart of God—

‘Will you still say, “I am a god,”
In the presence of your slayer,
Though you are a man and not God,
In the hands of those who wound you?

The people kept crying out, “The voice of a god and not of a man!”

“Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass on.
But they will be held guilty,
They whose strength is their god.”

Then Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in God’s place?

Moreover, he shall speak for you to the people; and he will be as a mouth for you and you will be as God to him.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.

A Psalm of Asaph.
God takes His stand in His own congregation;
He judges in the midst of the rulers.

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

Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David.
Do you indeed speak righteousness, O gods?
Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),