All the nations are as nothing before him; they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
1 Corinthians 10:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? More versionsKing 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 counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought: their molten images are wind and confusion.
And ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:
And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.
I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.