Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And turn ye not aside after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
New American Standard Bible
You must not turn aside, for then you would go after
King James Version
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Holman Bible
Don’t turn away to follow worthless
International Standard Version
Don't turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or deliver because they're useless.
American Standard Version
and turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
Amplified
You must not turn away, for then you would go after futile things which cannot profit or rescue, because they are futile.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
and turn ye not aside; for it would be after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Julia Smith Translation
And ye shall not turn aside: for after vanities which will not profit, and they will not deliver, for they are vanities.
King James 2000
And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And do not turn aside after the triviality, which have no value and cannot deliver, for they are triviality.
Modern King James verseion
And do not turn aside to go after vanities, which cannot profit nor deliver. For they are vain.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Neither turn ye after vain things which can not deliver you, for they are but vanities.
NET Bible
You should not turn aside after empty things that can't profit and can't deliver, since they are empty.
New Heart English Bible
Do not turn aside to go after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
The Emphasized Bible
and turn not aside after vanities, that can neither profit nor deliver, because, vanities, they are.
Webster
And turn ye not aside: for then would ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
World English Bible
Don't turn aside; for [then you would go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
Youngs Literal Translation
and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they are vain,
Themes
Kings » Who reigned over all israel » saul
Profit and loss » Profit » Sin unprofitable, general references to
Reproof » Should be accompanied by exhortation to repentance
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Samuel 12:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Samuel's Charge To Israel
20 And Samuel said to the people, Fear not. Ye have indeed done all this evil, yet turn not aside from following LORD, but serve LORD with all your heart. 21 And turn ye not aside after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain. 22 For LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased LORD to make you a people to himself.
Names
Cross References
Habakkuk 2:18
What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?
Jeremiah 10:15
They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah 16:19
O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to thee the nations shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in whic
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.
Deuteronomy 11:16
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them,
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 will move them to jealousy with a non-nation. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 41:23-24
Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods. Yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
Isaiah 41:29
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
Isaiah 44:9-10
Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame.
Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god that cannot save.
Isaiah 46:7
They bear it upon the shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands. From its place it shall not remove. Yea, he may cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?
Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are not thou he, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for thee, for thou have made all these things.
Jonah 2:8
Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.