What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”
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 have not love, I am nothing.
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,
Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their metal images are empty wind.
All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
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