Romans 3:1
Therefore, what [is] the advantage of the Jew, or what [is] the use of circumcision?
Genesis 25:32
And Esau said, "Look, I am going to die; now what [is] this birthright to me?"
Ecclesiastes 6:8
So do the wise [really] have an advantage over fools? {Can the poor [really] gain anything by knowing how to act in front of others}?
Ecclesiastes 6:11
{Increasing words only multiplies futility}, how does that profit anyone?
Isaiah 1:11-15
What [is the] abundance of your sacrifices to me? says Yahweh. I have had enough [of] burnt offerings of rams and [the] fat [of] fattened animals and I do not delight in [the] blood of bulls and ram-lambs and goats.
Malachi 3:14
You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh of hosts?
Romans 2:25-29
For circumcision is of value if you do the law, but if you should be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
1 Corinthians 15:32
If according to a human perspective I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what benefit [is it] to me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.