Thematic Bible: Sin unprofitable, general references to


Thematic Bible



They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick -- they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.

He looketh on men, and saith, 'I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.




and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they are vain,

For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

Framers of a graven image are all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they are, They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.