All the nations are as nothing before Him. By Him they are accounted null and void.
1 Corinthians 10:19 - Tree of Life Version What am I saying then—that an idol sacrifice is anything, or that an idol is anything? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. By Him they are accounted null and void.
Indeed, they are all a delusion. Their works are null. Their molten images are wind and waste.
You see and hear that not only in Ephesus but also throughout all Asia, Paul has persuaded and perverted a considerable crowd, saying that handmade gods are not gods at all.
and God chose the lowly and despised things of the world, the things that are as nothing, so He might bring to nothing the things that are—
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 neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who makes things grow.
Therefore concerning the eating of idol sacrifices, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
I have become a fool—you drove me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I am in no way inferior to the super-special emissaries—though I am nothing.
They made Me jealous with a non-god. They vexed Me with airy idols. So I will make them jealous with a non-people. With a foolish nation I will vex them.