Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
Unprofitable
Profitable
General references
Bible References
Unprofitable
Job 30:1
But now those that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Matthew 25:30
And cast ye the unprofitable slave into the outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Luke 17:10
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable slaves: we have done that which was our duty to do.
Romans 3:12
They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, no, not one.
1 Peter 2:10
Ye who in the time past were not a people, but are now the people of God, who in the time past had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Profitable
Luke 15:24
for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.
2 Timothy 4:11
Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with thee, for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
General references
Luke 17:10
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable slaves: we have done that which was our duty to do.