All the nations in his sight are as if they did not exist, and they are considered by him as if they were nothingness and emptiness.
1 Corinthians 10:19 - Catholic Public Domain Version What is next? Should I say that what is immolated to idols is anything? Or that the idol is anything? 更多版本King 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? 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? English Standard Version 2016 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? |
All the nations in his sight are as if they did not exist, and they are considered by him as if they were nothingness and emptiness.
Behold, they are all unjust, and their works are empty. Their idols are wind and emptiness.
And you are seeing and hearing that this man Paul, by persuasion, has turned away a great multitude, not only from Ephesus, but from nearly all of Asia, saying, 'These things are not gods which have been made by hands.'
And God has chosen the ignoble and contemptible of the world, those who are nothing, so that he may reduce to nothing those who are something.
And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing.
And so, neither he who plants, nor he who waters, is anything, but only God, who provides the growth.
But as to the foods that are immolated to idols, we know that an idol in the world is nothing, and that no one is God, except One.
I have become foolish; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you. For I have been nothing less than those who claim to be above the measure of Apostles, even though I am nothing.
They have provoked me with that which was not God, and they have angered me with their emptiness. And so, I will provoke them with that which is not a people, and I will anger them with a foolish nation.