Verses often taken out of context or misused: Psalm 82:6
Psalm 82:6 I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; (ESV)
This verse is claimed by Mormons in their teaching of the heresy that man can become gods in their own right. Which is ironic when you read the immediate context of the next verse:
Psalm 82:7 [7] nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.” (ESV)
Psalm 82 is about Yahweh being above all other gods and only He is the the one who can judge righteously.
Look at the context:
Psalm 82 [1] God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: [2] “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah [3] Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. [4] Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” [5] They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. [6] I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; [7] nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.” [8] Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations! (ESV)
Jesus quotes this Psalm in (John 10:34):
John 10:33–38 [33] The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” [34] Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? [35] If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—[36] do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? [37] If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; [38] but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” (ESV)
Jesus used this passage in response to those who accused Him of blasphemy. Essentially, Jesus asked why, the one “whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world” (John 10:36) would be blaspheming by claiming to be God’s Son.