Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? and those that handled the law did not know me; the pastors also rebelled against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit.
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?
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesied falsely, and the priests bore rule by their hands; and my people love to have it so. What will ye do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah 10:21
For the pastors are become carnal and have not sought the LORD; therefore they did not understand, and all their flocks scattered.
Deuteronomy 33:10
They shall teach Jacob thy judgments and Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thy nostrils and a perfect sacrifice upon thine altar.
1 Samuel 2:12
But the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they did not know the LORD.
1 Samuel 12:21
do not turn aside after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
1 Kings 18:22
Then Elijah spoke again unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
1 Kings 18:29
And when midday was past, even so they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, and there was neither voice nor anyone that answered nor anyone that heard.
1 Kings 18:40
And Elijah said unto them, Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they seized them; and Elijah took them down to the brook Kishon and slew them there.
Isaiah 28:7
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Isaiah 29:10
For the LORD has extended upon you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, he has covered the seers with sleep.
Isaiah 30:5
all shall be ashamed of the people that shall not profit them, nor be a help, nor bring them increase, but a shame, and also a reproach.
Isaiah 56:9-12
All ye beasts of the field, all ye beasts of the forest; come to devour.
Jeremiah 2:6
Neither did they say, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through and where no man dwelt?
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed their gods? Even though they are not gods. But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish; the ignorant sons with no understanding have not known me; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 7:8
Behold, ye trust in lying words that cannot profit.
Jeremiah 8:8-11
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Behold, certainly in vain did he make the pen; the scribes were in vain.
Jeremiah 12:10
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard; they have trodden my heritage under foot; they have made my precious heritage a desolate wilderness.
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.
Jeremiah 23:1-2
Woe be unto the pastors that waste and scatter the sheep of my pasture! said the LORD.
Jeremiah 23:9-15
My heart is broken within me because of the prophets, all my bones shake; I was like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, before the LORD, and before the words of his holiness.
Hosea 4:6
My people were cut off because they lacked wisdom; because thou hast rejected wisdom, I will cast thee out of the priesthood; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy sons.
Malachi 2:6-9
The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and righteousness and turned many away from iniquity.
Matthew 16:26
For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Luke 11:52
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and those that were entering in, ye hindered.
John 8:55
yet ye have not known him, but I know him; and if I should say, I do not know him, I shall be a liar like unto you; but I know him and keep his word.
John 16:3
And they will do these things unto you because they do not know the Father, nor me.
Romans 2:17-24
Behold, thou doth call thyself a Jew and art supported by the law and doth glory in God
2 Corinthians 4:2
but remove from ourselves every hidden shameful thing, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but in the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.