ou marks the negation of actions, claims, relationships, and possibilities in the clauses where it occurs.

The supplied verses show ou regularly negating what is said: an action or quality, a stated relationship, an ability, or a proposed condition. Its forms occur in assertions, questions, and conditional statements without evidence here for separate lexical senses.

1. Negating a statement, relation, or possibility · dominant

   The forms tagged Adverb deny the clause element at issue: in 1 Corinthians 10:5 the APB renders God's lack of delight in most of them; in 1 Corinthians 12:14 it renders the body's not being one member; and in 1 Corinthians 13:4 it renders the denial of envy, boasting, and being puffed up. The same negation frames conditional and ability statements: in 1 Corinthians 15:13 the APB renders the condition that there is no resurrection and the resulting claim that Christ has not been raised, while in 1 Corinthians 15:50 it renders that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.

   1 Corinthians 10:51 Corinthians 12:141 Corinthians 13:41 Corinthians 15:131 Corinthians 15:501 Corinthians 16:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly presents the negative clauses with “not,” “no,” or “cannot,” as in its renderings of 1 Corinthians 10:5 and 1 Corinthians 15:50. Those English forms confirm the clause-level negation rather than supplying a separate definition.