All nations before Him are as a non-entity, and they are reckoned by Him as less than a speck, and emptiness.
1 Corinthians 10:19 - The Scriptures 2009 What then do I say? That an idol is of any value? Or that which is slaughtered to idols is of any value? 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 nations before Him are as a non-entity, and they are reckoned by Him as less than a speck, and emptiness.
“See, all of them are useless, their works are naught, their moulded images are wind and confusion.
“And you see and hear that not only at Ephesos, but throughout almost all Asia, this Sha’ul has persuaded and turned away a large number, saying that they are not mighty ones which are made with hands.
And Elohim has chosen the low-born of the world and the despised, and the ones that are not, that He might bring to naught the ones that are,
And if I have prophecy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all belief, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am none at all.
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is any at all, but Elohim who gives the increase.
So then, concerning the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol is no matter at all in the world, and that there is no other Elohim but one.
I have become a fool – you have compelled me. For I should have been commended by you, for in no respect was I behind the most eminent emissaries, though I am a nobody.
They made Me jealous by what is not Ěl, They provoked Me with their worthless matters. But I make them jealous by those who are no people, I provoke them with a foolish nation.