'Nothing' in the Bible

When the demon had been driven out, the man spoke. And the crowds were amazed, saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”

“Therefore, don’t be afraid of them, since there is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered and nothing hidden that won’t be made known.

Now Jesus summoned His disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry; otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

“Because of your little faith,” He told them. “For I assure you: If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.

When he went out about nine in the morning, he saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

Then about five he went and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?’

Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And He said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” At once the fig tree withered.

“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the sanctuary, it means nothing. But whoever takes an oath by the gold of the sanctuary is bound by his oath.’

Also, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it means nothing. But whoever takes an oath by the gift that is on it is bound by his oath.’

And throw this good-for-nothing slave into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

For I was hungryand you gave Me nothing to eat;I was thirstyand you gave Me nothing to drink;

While he was sitting on the judge’s bench, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for today I’ve suffered terribly in a dream because of Him!”

telling him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer what Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

For nothing is concealed except to be revealed, and nothing hidden except to come to light.

He instructed them to take nothing for the road except a walking stick: no bread, no traveling bag, no money in their belts.

Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.

And He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a man from the outside can defile him?

In those days there was again a large crowd, and they had nothing to eat. He summoned the disciples and said to them,

“I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with Me three days and have nothing to eat.

And He told them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer [and fasting].”

After seeing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, He went to find out if there was anything on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.

So they went out and started running from the tomb, because trembling and astonishment overwhelmed them. And they said nothing to anyone, since they were afraid.

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

for 40 days to be tempted by the Devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over, He was hungry.

“Master,” Simon replied, “we’ve worked hard all night long and caught nothing! But at Your word, I’ll let down the nets.”

But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is gracious to the ungrateful and evil.

For nothing is concealed that won’t be revealed, and nothing hidden that won’t be made known and come to light.

“Take nothing for the road,” He told them, “no walking stick, no traveling bag, no bread, no money; and don’t take an extra shirt.

Look, I have given you the authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy; nothing will ever harm you.

There is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered, nothing hidden that won’t be made known.

“And I say to you, My friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.

After he had spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he had nothing.

In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, ‘We are good-for-nothing slaves; we’ve only done our duty.’”

Neither has Herod, because he sent Him back to us. Clearly, He has done nothing to deserve death.

We are punished justly, because we’re getting back what we deserve for the things we did, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

“I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

When they were full, He told His disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.”

Yet, look! He’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be true that the authorities know He is the Messiah?

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

“If I glorify Myself,” Jesus answered, “My glory is nothing. My Father—you say about Him, ‘He is our God’—He is the One who glorifies Me.

One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You see? You’ve accomplished nothing. Look—the world has gone after Him!”

“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me.

Until now you have asked for nothing in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

“I’m going fishing,” Simon Peter said to them.“We’re coming with you,” they told him. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

And since they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in response.

Not long ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a group of about 400 men rallied to him. He was killed, and all his partisans were dispersed and came to nothing.

“Please pray to the Lord for me,” Simon replied, “so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

Then Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing. So they took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.

“‘No, Lord!’ I said. ‘For nothing common or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time on nothing else but telling or hearing something new.

Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay for them to get their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that what they were told about you amounts to nothing, but that you yourself are also careful about observing the law.

The shouting grew loud, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party got up and argued vehemently: “We find nothing evil in this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

If then I am doing wrong, or have done anything deserving of death, I do not refuse to die, but if there is nothing to what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore, I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this examination is over, I may have something to write.

To this very day, I have obtained help that comes from God, and I stand and testify to both small and great, saying nothing else than what the prophets and Moses said would take place—

and when they had left they talked with each other and said, “This man is doing nothing that deserves death or chains.”

When it was about daylight, Paul urged them all to take food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and going without food, having eaten nothing.

They expected that he would swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after they waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

After three days he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered he said to them: “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

(I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.)

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.

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.

About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

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!

If I have the gift of prophecyand understand all mysteriesand all knowledge,and if I have all faithso that I can move mountainsbut do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,and if I give my body in order to boastbut do not have love, I gain nothing.

If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear from you, because he is doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.

Now we are writing nothing to you other than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely—

as grieving yet always rejoicing;as poor yet enriching many;as having nothing yet possessing everything.

I have become a fool; you forced it on me. I should have been endorsed by you, since I am not in any way inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

Now we pray to God that you do nothing wrong—not that we may appear to pass the test, but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear to fail.

Now from those recognized as important (what they really were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism)—they added nothing to me.

I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

Did you suffer so much for nothing—if in fact it was for nothing?

For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.

Do nothing out of rivalry or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.

Hold firmly to the message of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run or labor for nothing.

For this reason, when I could no longer stand it, I also sent him to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that our labor might be for nothing.

and then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of His mouth and will bring him to nothing with the brightness of His coming.

For everything created by God is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

But have nothing to do with irreverent and silly myths. Rather, train yourself in godliness,

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing out of favoritism.

he is conceited, understanding nothing, but has a sick interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarreling, slander, evil suspicions,

For we brought nothing into the world,and we can take nothing out.

To the pure, everything is pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; in fact, both their mind and conscience are defiled.

Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

Diligently help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey, so that they will lack nothing.

and subjected everything under his feet.For in subjecting everything to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. As it is, we do not yet see everything subjected to him.

Now it is evident that our Lord came from Judah, and Moses said nothing about that tribe concerning priests.

(for the law perfected nothing), but a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

since they set out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from pagans.

Because you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t know that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,

Nothing profane will ever enter it: no one who does what is vile or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.