Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

Bible References

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Jeremiah 13:10
These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.
Jeremiah 24:1
The Lord gave me a vision, and I saw two baskets full of figs put in front of the Temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, had taken prisoner Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the chiefs of Judah, and the expert workmen and metal-workers from Jerusalem, and had taken them to Babylon.
Isaiah 64:6
For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.
Ezekiel 15:3
Will its wood be used for any work? do men make of it a pin for hanging any vessel on?
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel.
Luke 14:34
For salt is good, but if the taste goes from it, of what use is it?
Romans 3:12
They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:
Philemon 1:11
Who in the past was of no profit to you, but now is of profit to you and to me:

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain