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So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

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I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

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For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.(A)

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Psalm 115

The Impotence of Idols and the Greatness of God

[a]Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
    for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 115.1 Psalms 114–115 are a single psalm in the earliest witnesses

but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power[a] is made perfect in weakness.” So I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.(A)

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  1. 12.9 Other ancient authorities read my power

And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.(A)

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35 All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
    and he does what he wills with the host of heaven
    and the inhabitants of the earth.
There is no one who can stay his hand
    or say to him, “What have you done?”(A)

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29 No, they are all a delusion;
    their works are nothing;
    their images are empty wind.(A)

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17 All the nations are as nothing before him;
    they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.(A)

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