Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Neither turn ye after vain things which can not deliver you, for they are but vanities.
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.
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 Then said Samuel unto the people, "Fear not. And though ye have done all this wickedness, yet depart not from the LORD in any case. But serve him with all your hearts. 21 Neither turn ye after vain things which can not deliver you, for they are but vanities. 22 But the LORD will not forsake his people, because of his great name's sake: because the LORD hath begun to make you his people.
Names
Cross References
Habakkuk 2:18
What help then will the Image do, whom the workman hath fashioned? Or the vain cast Image, wherein because the craftsmen putteth his trust, therefore maketh he dumb Idols?
Jeremiah 10:15
The vain craftsmen with their works, that they in their vanity hath made, shall perish one with another in the time of visitation.
Jeremiah 16:19
O LORD, my strength, my power, and refuge in time of trouble! The Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the world, and say, "Verily our fathers have cleaved unto lies, their Idols are but vain and unprofitable.
1 Corinthians 8:4
To speak of meat dedicated unto idols, we are sure that there is none idol in the world: and that there is none other God but one.
Deuteronomy 11:16
But beware that your hearts deceive you not, that ye turn aside and serve strange gods and worship them,
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have angered me with that which is no god; and provoked me with their vanities. And I, again, will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with a foolish nation.
Psalm 115:4-8
Their images are but silver and gold, even the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 41:23-24
Either, let them show us things for to come, and tell us what shall be done hereafter: so shall we know, that they be gods. Show something, either good or bad: so will we both knowledge the same, and tell it out.
Isaiah 41:29
Lo, wicked are they and vain, with the things also that they take in hand: yea, their images are but wind and emptiness.
Isaiah 44:9-10
All carvers of Images are but vain, and the carved images that they love can do no good. They must bear record themselves, that seeing they can neither see nor understand they shall be confounded.
Isaiah 45:20
Let them be gathered and come together, let them draw nigh hither, that are escaped of the people: Have they any understanding, that set up the stocks of their Idols, and praise unto a god, that cannot help them?
Isaiah 46:7
Yet must he be taken on men's shoulders and borne, and set in his place, that he may stand and not move. Alas that men should cry unto him, which giveth no answer; and delivereth not the man that calleth upon him, from his trouble.
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus sayeth the LORD unto you, "What unfaithfulness found your fathers in me, that they went so far away from me, falling to lightness, and being so vain?
Jeremiah 2:13
For my people hath done two evils: They have forsaken me, the well of the water of life; and digged them pits, yea, vile and broken pits, that hold no water.
Jeremiah 10:8
They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the gods of the Gentiles, that send rain or give the showers of heaven? Dost not thou it, O LORD our God, in whom we trust? Yea LORD, thou dost all these things."
Jonah 2:8
They that observe vain vanities, have forsaken him that was merciful unto them.