When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "Thou hast clothing; be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand,"

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child and thy princes feast in the morning!

Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength and not for drunkenness!

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.

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.

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, but have not charity, I am nothing.

I have become a fool in glorying. Ye have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I inferior to the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.