'Nothing' in the Bible

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.