All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
1 Corinthians 10:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 What do I imply, then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything or that an idol is anything? Flere versionerKing 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.
No, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their images are empty wind.
You also see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost the whole of Asia this Paul has persuaded and drawn away a considerable number of people by saying that gods made with hands are not gods.
God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish 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 do not have love, I am nothing.
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”
I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
They made me jealous with what is no god, provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with what is no people, provoke them with a foolish nation.