¹⁹ What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

⁴ 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.

²¹ 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 that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

¹⁷ All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

²⁹ Behold, all of them, their works are vanity `and' nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.

²⁸ 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:

⁷ So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

² 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.

¹¹ 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.