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 that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I also will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with foolish Gentiles.
Jeremiah 2:5
thus hath the LORD said, What iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain?
Jeremiah 10:8
But they shall become altogether carnal and foolish. The stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause it to rain? or can the heavens give rain? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee, for thou hast made all these things.
Jeremiah 16:19
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the time of the affliction; Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.
Jonah 2:8
Those that observe lying vanities forsake his mercy.
Habakkuk 2:18
Of what profit is the graven image that its maker has sculpted; the molten image, that teaches lies, so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work?
1 Corinthians 8:4
As concerning, therefore, the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
Cannot profit
Psalm 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 41:23
Give us news of that which is to come hereafter that we may know that ye are gods; or at least do good or do evil that we may have something to tell, and together we shall marvel.
Isaiah 44:9
Those that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and that which is most precious to them is useful for nothing; and they are their own witnesses that they do not see, nor understand; therefore, they shall be ashamed.
Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, all ye that are escaped of the Gentiles. They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image and pray unto the god that does not save.
Isaiah 46:7
They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him and set him in his place. There he is; he does not move from his place; they cry unto him, and neither does he answer, nor save from the tribulation.
Jeremiah 10:15
They are vanity and the work of scorn: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
General references
Jonah 2:8
Those that observe lying vanities forsake his mercy.