as it is written, As a father of many Gentiles have I placed thee before God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as those that are.

However then, when ye did not know God, ye did service unto those who by nature are not gods.

Thou shalt seek them and shalt not find them, even those that contended with thee; those that war against thee shall be as nothing and as a thing of nought.

And I will be glad with Jerusalem and rejoice with my people: and the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is no one that does good.

As concerning, therefore, the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

He that sacrifices unto any god, except unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.