¹⁹ What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?

⁴ As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other 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 which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

¹⁷ All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

²⁹ Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

²⁸ And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

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

² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

¹¹ I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.