'Profit' in the Bible

And Esau said, Truly, I am at the point of death: what profit is the birthright to me?

And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is there in putting our brother to death and covering up his blood?

This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.

The kings came on to the fight, the kings of Canaan were warring; in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they took no profit in money.

And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.

Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?

He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.

For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.

What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?

Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.

Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

For trading in it is better than trading in silver, and its profit greater than bright gold.

Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.

Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.

He who is ever desiring profit is a cause of fighting; but he who puts his faith in the Lord will be made fat.

The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure.

After looking at a field with care, she gets it for a price, planting a vine-garden with the profit of her work.

She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.

Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.

When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.

The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.

Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers.

Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.

The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.

And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.

Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.

I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.

Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.

See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.

But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.

O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.

Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.

And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?

So I took care of the flock of death, for those who made profit out of the flock; and I took for myself two rods, naming one Beautiful, and the other Bands; and I took care of the flock.

You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?

But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;

For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,

What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?

For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?

In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.

And when we were going to the place of prayer, we came across a girl with a spirit which gave knowledge of the future, whose masters made great profit from her power.

But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers;

For there was a certain man named Demetrius, a silver-worker, who made silver boxes for the images of Diana, and gave no small profit to the workmen;

And how I kept back nothing which might be of profit to you, teaching you publicly and privately,

How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.

Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation.

And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching?

For your giving of the blessing is certainly well done, but of no profit to the man without knowledge.

But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.

If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.

Let your hearts be open to us: we have done no man wrong, no man has been damaged by us, we have made no profit out of any man,

And in this I give my opinion: for it is to your profit, who were the first to make a start a year before, not only to do this, but to make clear that your minds were more than ready to do it.

So it seemed to me wise for the brothers to go before, and see that the amount which you had undertaken to give was ready, so that it might be a cause for praise, and not as if we were making profit out of you.

You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.

Did I make a profit out of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

I gave orders to Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus make any profit out of you? were we not guided by the same Spirit, in the same ways?

It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

For to me life is Christ and death is profit.

But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.

For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:

Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers.

Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:

For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;