For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
One God ... With great difficulty, the Hebrew people were finally taught the truth of monotheism; but, in spite of many lapses, they came in time, following the Babylonian captivity, to accept the principle completely. However, they failed, even then, to appreciate the truth that God is the God of all people, not of Israel alone; and there is always the tendency for people to think of God as THEIRS and not the God of all.  This paragraph is charged with the truth that God is God of all.  Lenski rejected the American Standard Version translation of this verse, affirming the meaning actually to be: