1 Corinthians 10:19

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Cross References

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

Isaiah 41:29

Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their molten images are empty wind.

Acts 19:26

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.

1 Corinthians 1:28

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,

1 Corinthians 10:14

Therefore, my beloved, shun the worship of idols.

1 Corinthians 13:2

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.

1 Corinthians 3:7

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

1 Corinthians 8:4

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.”

2 Corinthians 12:11

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.

Deuteronomy 32:21

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.