Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
and turn not aside after vanities, that can neither profit nor deliver, because, vanities, they are.
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.
A Conservative Version
And turn ye not aside after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
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.
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 Then said Samuel unto the people - Do not fear, ye, have done all this wrong, - nevertheless, do not turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh, with all your heart; 21 and turn not aside after vanities, that can neither profit nor deliver, because, vanities, they are. 22 For Yahweh will not give up his people, because of his great name, for Yahweh was minded to make you his people.
Names
Cross References
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!
Jeremiah 10:15
Vanity, they are, the handiwork of mockeries, - In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.
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:
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.
Deuteronomy 11:16
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be befooled, - and ye turn aside and serve other gods, and bow down to them.
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.
Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols, are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men, -
Isaiah 41:23-24
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 41:29
Lo! as to all of them, Vanity - nothingness, are their works, Wind and emptiness, their molten images!
Isaiah 44:9-10
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 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 2:13
For two wicked things, have my people committed, - Me, have they forsaken a fountain of living water, To hew out for themselves cisterns broken cisterns, that cannot hold water.
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.
Jonah 2:8
They who take heed to the vanities of falsehood, do, their own lovingkindness, forsake.