'Nothing' in the Bible
'Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.
'Ye may not, therefore, fear them, for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed, and hid, that shall not be known;
And Jesus said to them, 'Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,
and he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.
and having seen a certain fig-tree on the way, he came to it, and found nothing in it except leaves only, and he saith to it, 'No more from thee may fruit be -- to the age;' and forthwith the fig-tree withered.
Woe to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary -- is debtor!
And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it -- is debtor!
And the chief priest having stood up, said to him, 'Nothing thou dost answer! what do these witness against thee?
And as he is sitting on the tribunal, his wife sent unto him, saying, 'Nothing -- to thee and to that righteous one, for many things did I suffer to-day in a dream because of him.'
And Pilate having seen that it profiteth nothing, but rather a tumult is made, having taken water, he did wash the hands before the multitude, saying, 'I am innocent from the blood of this righteous one; ye -- ye shall see;'
and saith to him, 'See thou mayest say nothing to any one, but go away, thyself shew to the priest, and bring near for thy cleansing the things Moses directed, for a testimony to them.'
and many things having suffered under many physicians, and having spent all that she had, and having profited nothing, but rather having come to the worse,
and he commanded them that they may take nothing for the way, except a staff only -- no scrip, no bread, no brass in the girdle,
there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.
and he saith to them, 'So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him?
and they forgot to take loaves, and except one loaf they had nothing with them in the boat,
And he said to them, 'This kind is able to come forth with nothing except with prayer and fasting.'
and having seen a fig-tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he shall find anything in it, and having come to it, he found nothing except leaves, for it was not a time of figs,
And the chief priests were accusing him of many things, but he answered nothing.
and Simon answering said to him, 'Master, through the whole night, having laboured, we have taken nothing, but at thy saying I will let down the net.'
'But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;
for nothing is secret, that shall not become manifest, nor hid, that shall not be known, and become manifest.
And he said unto them, 'Take nothing for the way, neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats each;
lo, I give to you the authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and on all the power of the enemy, and nothing by any means shall hurt you;
and there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known;
And he said to them, 'When I sent you without bag, and scrip, and sandals, did ye lack anything?' and they said, 'Nothing.'
and was questioning him in many words, and he answered him nothing.
no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;
and we indeed righteously, for things worthy of what we did we receive back, but this one did nothing out of place;'
And when they were filled, he saith to his disciples, 'Gather together the broken pieces that are over, that nothing may be lost;'
and, lo, he doth speak freely, and they say nothing to him; did the rulers at all know truly that this is truly the Christ?
Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am he; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;
Jesus answered, 'If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me, of whom ye say that He is your God;
I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;
and in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you;
till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Jesus answered him, 'I spake freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spake nothing;
Simon Peter saith to them, 'I go away to fish;' they say to him, 'We go -- we also -- with thee;' they went forth and entered into the boat immediately, and on that night they caught nothing.
and seeing the man standing with them who hath been healed, they had nothing to say against it,
And they having further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done,
And Simon answering, said, 'Beseech ye for me unto the Lord, that nothing may come upon me of the things ye have spoken.'
but having risen, go down and go on with them, nothing doubting, because I have sent them;'
and the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting, and these six brethren also went with me, and we did enter into the house of the man,
and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.
and not only is this department in danger for us of coming into disregard, but also, that of the great goddess Artemis the temple is to be reckoned for nothing, and also her greatness is about to be brought down, whom all Asia and the world doth worship.'
these things, then, not being to be gainsaid, it is necessary for you to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
how nothing I did keep back of what things are profitable, not to declare to you, and to teach you publicly, and in every house,
these having taken, be purified with them, and be at expence with them, that they may shave the head, and all may know that the things of which they have been instructed concerning thee are nothing, but thou dost walk -- thyself also -- the law keeping.
who having come near to the chief priests and to the elders said, 'With an anathema we did anathematize ourselves -- to taste nothing till we have killed Paul;
and I, having found him to have done nothing worthy of death, and he also himself having appealed to Sebastus, I decided to send him,
'Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,
and having withdrawn, they were speaking unto one another, saying -- 'This man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds;'
And till the day was about to be, Paul was calling upon all to partake of nourishment, saying, 'Fourteen days to-day, waiting, ye continue fasting, having taken nothing,
and they were expecting him to be about to be inflamed, or to fall down suddenly dead, and they, expecting it a long time, and seeing nothing uncommon happening to him, changing their minds, said he was a god.
And it came to pass after three days, Paul called together those who are the principal men of the Jews, and they having come together, he said unto them: 'Men, brethren, I -- having done nothing contrary to the people, or to the customs of the fathers -- a prisoner from Jerusalem, was delivered up to the hands of the Romans;
I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one it is unclean;
for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right -- and he who is discerning me is the Lord:
so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.
the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.
Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;
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;
and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;
and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.
in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,
as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;
according as it hath been written, 'He who did gather much, had nothing over; and he who did gather little, had no lack.'
for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,
I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.
And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,
And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,
lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;
for if any one doth think himself to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,
nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --
for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;
that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.
for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,
because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,
I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.
he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,
for nothing did we bring into the world -- it is manifest that we are able to carry nothing out;
These things remind them of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;
all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast is nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience;
discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.
Zenas the lawyer and Apollos bring diligently on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking,
and apart from thy mind I willed to do nothing, that as of necessity thy good deed may not be, but of willingness,
all things Thou didst put in subjection under his feet,' for in the subjecting to him the all things, nothing did He leave to him unsubjected, and now not yet do we see the all things subjected to him,
for it is evident that out of Judah hath arisen our Lord, in regard to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
(for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.
and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;
and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed,
because for His name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;
because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,