Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Vain things
Cannot profit
General references
Bible References
Vain things
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have moved me to jealousy with a No-GOD, They have angered me with their vanities: I, therefore, will move them to jealousy with a No-people, With an impious nation, will I anger them.
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus, saith Yahweh, - What did your fathers find in me by way of perversity, that they removed far from me, - and went after vanity, and became vain?
Jeremiah 10:8
But at once, do they become brutish and stupid, - An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree!
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there, among the vanities of the nations senders of rain? Or can, the heavens themselves, give myriad drops? Art not, thou, he, O Yahweh our God? Therefore will we wait for thee, For, thou, hast made all these.
Jeremiah 16:19
O Yahweh, my strength, and my refuge, and my place to fly to, in the day of distress, - Unto thee, shall nations come in, out of the ends of the earth, that they may say - Surely! Falsehood, did our fathers inherit, Vanity, among whom is none that can profit:
Jonah 2:8
They who take heed to the vanities of falsehood, do, their own lovingkindness, forsake.
Habakkuk 2:18
What hath a carved image, profited, though the fashioner thereof, carved it? a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood, - though the fashioner of his fashioned thing trusted therein? that men should make Dumb Nonentities!
1 Corinthians 8:4
Concerning, then, the eating of idol-sacrifices, we are aware - that an idol is, nothing, in the world, and that, none, is God save one.
Cannot profit
Psalm 115:4
Their idols, are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men, -
Isaiah 41:23
Tell ye the events which shall be here-after, That we may perceive that gods, ye are, - Surely ye must do something - good or bad, That we may be amazed and behold it, at once.
Isaiah 44:9
The fashioners of an image - all of them, are emptiness, And, the things they delight in, cannot profit, - And, their, witnesses, they, neither see nor know, That they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come Draw near together, ye escaped of the nations, - They know not Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray unto a GOD who cannot save.
Isaiah 46:7
They carry him about on the shoulder They bear the burden of him - and set him in his place that he may stand, - Out of his place, will he not move, - Though one even make outcry unto him, he will not answer, Out of ones trouble, he will not save him.
Jeremiah 10:15
Vanity, they are, the handiwork of mockeries, - In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.
General references
Jonah 2:8
They who take heed to the vanities of falsehood, do, their own lovingkindness, forsake.