'Nothing' in the Bible
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something,
For I didn’t think it was a good idea to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
However, we do speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.
And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.
For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the saying: “Nothing beyond what is written.” The purpose is that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person over another.
Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels--to say nothing of things belonging to this life?
If therefore you have things belonging to this life which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the Church--is it *they* whom you make your judges?
Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I become a slave.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
And for those who are in sorrow, to give no signs of it; and for those who are glad, to give no signs of joy; and for those who are getting property, to be as if they had nothing;
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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 none other God but one.
If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.
For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.
and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;
Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look down on the church of God and embarrass those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you for this!
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.
By this faith you are saved [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose], if you hold firmly to the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain [just superficially and without complete commitment].
But by the [remarkable] grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not without effect. In fact, I worked harder than all of the apostles, though it was not I, but the grace of God [His unmerited favor and blessing which was] with me.
and if the Messiah has not been raised, then our message means nothing and your faith means nothing.
If in this present life we have a *hope* resting on Christ, and nothing more, we are more to be pitied than all the rest of the world.
If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear from you, because he is doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.
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- Aught (42 instances)
- Cipher (1 instance)
- Naught (6 instances)
- Nothing (900 instances)
- Null (3 instances)
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'al
Chinnam
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La' (Aramaic)
Ma`at
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