1 Corinthians 10:19

WEB

¹⁹What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

KJV

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

BSB

¹⁹Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

FBV

¹⁹What am I saying then? That anything sacrificed to idols means anything, or that an idol has any real existence? Of course not!

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Extra References

1 Corinthians 8:4

⁴Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

1 Corinthians 1:28

²⁸God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

Isaiah 41:29

²⁹Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

Isaiah 40:17

¹⁷All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

1 Corinthians 13:2

²If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 3:7

⁷So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

²¹They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

2 Corinthians 12:11

¹¹I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.