Psalms 82:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

Psalms 82:6 —

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John 10:34-36
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? …
Psalms 82:1
A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-8)

We have here, I. Earthly gods abased and brought down, Ps. 82:6, 7. The dignity of their character is acknowledged (Ps. 82:6): I have said, You are gods. They have been honoured with the name and title of gods. God himself called them so in the statute against treasonable words Exod. 22:28; Thou shalt not revile the gods. And, if they have this style from the fountain of honour, who can dispute it…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6-7. Though God admitted their official dignity (Joh 10:34), He reminds them of their mortality.