All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
1 Corinthians 10:19 - Revised Standard Version What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is [intrinsically changed by the fact and amounts to] anything or that an idol itself is a [living] thing? American Standard Version (1901) What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? Common English Bible What am I saying then? That food sacrificed to a false god is anything, or that a false god is anything? Catholic Public Domain Version What is next? Should I say that what is immolated to idols is anything? Or that the idol is anything? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version What then? Do I say, that what is offered in sacrifice to idols, is any thing? Or, that the idol is any thing? |
All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their molten images are empty wind.
And you see and hear that not only at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable company of people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.
God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”
I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.
They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no god; they have provoked me with their idols. So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.