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

⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.

³ For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.

¹ Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith.

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.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.

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

³⁵ And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?

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