¹⁹ Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?

⁴ So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

²¹ They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,

¹⁷ All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

²⁹ Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.

²⁸ And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

⁷ So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.

² And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

¹¹ I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.