¹⁹ what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --

⁴ Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol `is' nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

²¹ They have made Me zealous by `no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by `no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

¹⁷ All the nations `are' as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.

²⁹ `Lo, all of them `are' vanity, Nought `are' their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'

²⁸ and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --

⁷ so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;

² and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

¹¹ I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.