and the low-born 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,

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who causes growth.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

And if I were to have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I were to have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not the Mighty God; they have moved Me to anger by their vanities. So I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a people; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

All the nations before Him are as nothing; and to Him they are accounted as less than nothing, and vanity.

Behold, they are all wicked; their works are nothing; their molten images are like thin air and vanity.

I have become foolish in boasting; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, though I am nothing.