Jeremiah 2:8
The priests said not Where is Jehovah? and they holding the law knew me not: and the shepherds transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went After what will not profit
Habakkuk 2:18
What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesied in falsehood, and the priests will spread out with their hands; and my people loved it thus: and what will ye do to its last part
Jeremiah 10:21
For the shepherds were brutish, and they sought not Jehovah: for this they considered not, and all their flock was scattered.
Deuteronomy 33:10
And they shall teach thy judgments to Jacob, and thy law to Israel; they will put incense at thy nose, and whole burnt-offerings upon thine altar.
1 Samuel 2:12
And the sons of Eli, sons of Beli-al; they knew not Jehovah.
1 Samuel 12:21
And ye shall not turn aside: for after vanities which will not profit, and they will not deliver, for they are vanities.
1 Kings 18:22
And Elijah will say to the people, I was left alone a prophet to Jehovah; and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty men.
1 Kings 18:29
And it will be as the noon passed by, and they will prophesy even to the going up of the gift, and no voice, and none answered, and no attention.
1 Kings 18:40
And Elijah will say to them, Seize the prophets of Baal; a man shall not escape from them. And they will seize them, and Elijah will bring them down to the torrent Kishon, and they will slaughter them there.
Isaiah 28:7
And these also went astray by wine, and by strong drink they erred; the priest and the prophet went astray by strong drink, they were swallowed up from wine, they erred from strong drink, they went astray in seeing, they wavered in judgment.
Isaiah 29:10
For Jehovah poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and he will close your eyes: the prophets and your heads, the seeing he covered.
Isaiah 30:5
All acted wickedly for a people who will not profit them, not for help and not for profiting, but for shame and also for a reproach.
Isaiah 56:9-12
All ye beasts of the fields, come ye to eat; all ye beasts in the forest
Jeremiah 2:6
And they said not, Where is Jehovah bringing us up out of the land of Egypt, causing us to go through the desert into a sterile land and a pit, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land not a man passed through it, and not a man dwelt there?
Jeremiah 2:11
Did a nation change their gods, and they no gods? and my people changed their glory for what will not profit
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, they knew me not; foolish sons are they and they not understanding; wise are they to do evil, and to do good they knew not
Jeremiah 7:8
Behold, you trusting to yourselves upon words of falsehood not to receive profit.
Jeremiah 8:8-11
How shall ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah with us? Behold, surely for falsehood he made the style of the scribes a lie.
Jeremiah 12:10
Many shepherds destroyed my vineyard, they trod down my portion, they gave the portion of my desire for a desert of desolation.
Jeremiah 16:19
O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in days of straits, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers inherited falsehood, vanity, and no receiving profit in them.
Jeremiah 23:1-2
Wo to the shepherds destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture! says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 23:9-15
For the prophets my heart was broken in the midst of me, and all my bones were relaxed; I was as a man intoxicated, and as a man wine passing over him, from the face of Jehovah, and from the face of the words of his holiness.
Hosea 4:6
My people were cut off from not knowing: because thou didst reject knowledge and I will reject thee from being priest to me: and thou wilt forget the instructions of thy God; I will also forget thy sons, also I
Malachi 2:6-9
The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: in truth and in uprightness he went with me, and he turned back many from iniquity.
Matthew 16:26
For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and injure his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Luke 11:52
Woe to you, skilled in the law! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye came not in yourselves, and those coming in ye hindered.
John 8:55
And ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his word.
John 16:3
And these things shall they do to you, for they know not the Father, nor me.
Romans 2:17-24
Behold, thou art named a Jew, and restest upon the law, and boastest thyself in God,
2 Corinthians 4:2
But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.