19 What am I saying then? (A)That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?

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19 Do I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?(A)

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Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that (A)an idol is nothing in the world, (B)and that there is no other God but one.

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So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols:(A) We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world”(B) and that “There is no God but one.”(C)

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And though I have the gift of (A)prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, (B)so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

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If I have the gift of prophecy(A) and can fathom all mysteries(B) and all knowledge,(C) and if I have a faith(D) that can move mountains,(E) but do not have love, I am nothing.

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So then (A)neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

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So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

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28 and the [a]base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 1:28 insignificant or lowly

28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not(A)—to nullify the things that are,

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29 (A)Indeed they are all [a]worthless;
Their works are nothing;
Their molded images are wind and confusion.

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  1. Isaiah 41:29 So with MT, Vg.; DSS, Syr., Tg. nothing; LXX omits first line

29 See, they are all false!
    Their deeds amount to nothing;(A)
    their images(B) are but wind(C) and confusion.

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17 All nations before Him are as (A)nothing,
And (B)they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.

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17 Before him all the nations(A) are as nothing;(B)
    they are regarded by him as worthless
    and less than nothing.(C)

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21 (A)They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;
They have moved Me to anger (B)by their [a]foolish idols.
But (C)I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;
I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

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  1. Deuteronomy 32:21 foolishness, lit. vanities

21 They made me jealous(A) by what is no god
    and angered me with their worthless idols.(B)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
    I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.(C)

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Signs of an Apostle

11 I have become (A)a fool [a]in boasting; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for (B)in nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, though (C)I am nothing.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 12:11 NU omits in boasting

Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians

11 I have made a fool of myself,(A) but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,”[a](B) even though I am nothing.(C)

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  1. 2 Corinthians 12:11 Or the most eminent apostles