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And if indeed some of the meat of his fellowship offerings' sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted; it will not be considered [of benefit] for the one who presented it--it shall be unclean [meat], and the person who eats it shall bear his guilt.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAcceptance, divineAcceptance, Of WorshipThree Days

if it is to be acceptable for your benefit it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats.

Verse ConceptsSheepMale AnimalsPerfect SacrificesSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesBlemished CreaturesAcceptance

Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.'"

Verse ConceptsAcceptance, Of WorshipStrangersBlemished CreaturesAcceptancecorruption

When you sacrifice a thanksgiving offering to the Lord, you must sacrifice it so that it is acceptable for your benefit.

Verse ConceptsThank OfferingThanking GodAcceptanceSacrificeThank YouBeing GratefulThanksgiving And GratitudeThanksThanksgiving Offered To God

and he must wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for your benefit -- on the day after the Sabbath the priest is to wave it.

Verse ConceptsThe First Day Of The WeekSwinging

Whoever gathers the ashes of the heifer is to wash his clothes and is to remain unclean until the evening. This ordinance is to remain for the benefit of both the Israelis and the resident aliens who live among them."

Verse ConceptsAshesRitual WashingStrangersClean ClothesPeople Being PollutedUnclean Until EveningForeigners Included In The Law

On the seventh day you are to hold another sacred assembly for your benefit, on which no servile work is to be done."

Verse ConceptsConvocationsThe Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7No Work On Feast Days

And [so] Yahweh commanded us to observe all [of] these rules [and] to revere Yahweh our God {for our benefit} {all the days that we live}, {as it is today}.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And BlessingFear Of God, Results OfSustaining ProvidenceReverence To GodBlessings Of ObedienceFear God!Keep The Commandments!Survivalpreservation

Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

Verse ConceptsBattlesEnjoyment, Material ThingsHappinessVineyardPlanting VineyardsCultivationPossibility Of Death

He returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I personally consecrate the silver to the Lord for my son’s benefit to make a carved image overlaid with silver.”

So David concluded that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom in order to benefit his people Israel.

Verse ConceptsInsightStabilitySpiritual PerceptionSaul And David

So go back to the city and tell Absalom, "I'll be your servant, your majesty! Just as I served your father in the past, I can be your servant now.' That way you can manipulate Ahithophel's advice to my benefit.

David realized that the LORD was affirming him as king over Israel, and that his government was being exalted in order to benefit his people Israel.

Verse ConceptsInsight

Therefore, in the presence of all of Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and while our God is listening, observe and search through all of the commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may continue to possess this good land, leaving it for an inheritance forever to benefit your descendants who come after you."

But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsPride, Examples OfPride, Results Of

When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard all this, they were very displeased that someone had come to seek benefit for the Israelites.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahCharacter Of WickedEnvy, Example OfMalice, Examples OfThe Ungodly Suffering

Also at that time men were appointed over the storerooms for the contributions, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, so those portions required by the Law could be gathered from the fields adjacent to the towns to benefit the priests and descendants of Levi, for the people of Judah rejoiced over the priests and the descendants of Levi who were serving.

Verse ConceptsWagesAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingTithesStores Of FoodBringing In The Tithe

All Israel in the time of Zerubbabel and in the time of Nehemiah gave allotments to each of the singers and gate keepers on a daily basis, setting them apart to benefit the descendants of Levi. And the descendants of Levi set them apart to benefit the descendants of Aaron.

Verse ConceptsGatekeepersChoirsPermitted To Eat OfferingsTimes Of People

"Indeed, this is the benefit of God's way: from the soil other plants will sprout.

Verse ConceptsCreatures From Dust

Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessProfitsSkepticismCharacter Of WickedWho Is God?Serving God

"Is it to God that a strong man is of benefit? Is it to him that even a wise man is profitable?

Verse ConceptsUseful People

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

Verse ConceptsGod Is HolyDistinctives Of RighteousnessNot Pleasing God

If you ask what it profits you: 'How do I benefit {by refraining from my sin}?'

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To God

Yahweh accomplishes [things] for my benefit. O Yahweh, your loyal love [endures] forever; do not abandon the works of your hands.

Verse ConceptsGoalsGuidance, God's Promises OfHand Of GodGod, Immutability OfDestinyMan, Creation OfCareersAccomplishingDo Not Forsake Us!SchedulesTrusting God's Will

Bring forth my soul out of prison to praise thy name: the just shall surround upon me; for thou wilt benefit to me.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersFriends SurroundingPlenty Through GodGod Freeing CaptivesWe Thank GodSpiritual crownsThe SoulGoodnesssoulfreejail

For her benefit is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than gold.

Verse ConceptsAlternatives To MoneyTrue GainEducation

My fruit is better than gold, better than even refined gold, and my benefit surpasses the purest silver.

Verse ConceptsAlternatives To Moneyhonour

If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit;
if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.”

Verse ConceptsMockeryRidicule, Nature OfInfidelity To GodPersonal ResponsibilityActing For Oneselfconsequencesmockers

From the fruit of his words a man receives benefit, but the treacherous crave violence.

Verse ConceptsLipsUnfaithfulness, To GodViolencePursuing ViolenceBeing PositiveThe Power Of Words

What benefit do people get from all the effort which they expend on earth?

Verse ConceptsPhysical LabourToiling In VainUnder The SunQuestioning Life

So I decided to discern the benefit of wisdom and knowledge over foolish behavior and ideas; however, I concluded that even this endeavor is like trying to chase the wind!

Verse ConceptsStudying InsanityUseless Endeavour

What benefit does the worker gain from what he undertakes?

Verse ConceptsMen WorkingQuestioning Life

And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Verse ConceptsVanityUseless EndeavourMotivationSuccess And Hard WorkCompetitionaccomplishmentsaccomplishmenthardworkstriving

In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

Verse ConceptsGrowth In WealthFinancesFamily ProblemsWealth And ProsperitySaving Money

Because many words lead to pointlessness, how do people benefit from this? 12Who knows what is best for people in this life, every day of their pointless lives that they pass through like a shadow? Who informs people on earth what will come along after them?

Verse ConceptsToo Many WordsUseless Words And ThinkingSchoolThe Power Of Wordsfate

Wise use of possessions is good; it brings benefit to the living.

Verse ConceptsReceiving An InheritanceBenefits Of WisdomWisdom

"How do your voluminous sacrifices benefit me?" the LORD is asking. "I've had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. I don't enjoy the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats.

Verse ConceptsMultitudesGoatsBullsBlood Of SacrificesDelighting, Wrong Kinds OfGod, Will OfPleasureNot Pleasing GodMore Than EnoughSacrificesMeat offeringsRewards Of RitualSacrificetired

He will judge between the nations, and will render verdicts for the benefit of many. "They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nations will not raise swords against nations, and they will not learn warfare anymore.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgePruningPloughingSecuritySpearsToolsWarfare, Nature OfWeaponsNationsPeace, Effects OfDisarmamentMessianic PropheciesGod Makes PeaceMillennial Kingdom, Universal Peace And Blessing


“All will be ashamed because of a people (the Egyptians) who cannot benefit them,
Who are not a help or benefit, but a shame and also a disgrace.”

An oracle about the animals of the Negev: "Through a land of trouble, dryness, and distress, of lionesses and roaring lions, where there is no water, a land of vipers and darting snakes, he carries their riches on donkeys' backs, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot benefit them,

Verse ConceptsenvoyBackSnakesBeastsflying

Maybe Yahweh your God heard [the] words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to taunt [the] living God, and he will rebuke the words that Yahweh your God hears. And you must lift up a prayer for the benefit of the remnant that is found.'"

Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingRemnantRidicule, Objects OfSurvivors FavouredPray For UsWill God Pay Attention?

"Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight.

Verse ConceptsReinstatementSuffering, Of BelieversBeing BitterGod Has ForgivenPits Symbolizing GriefHope In Hard TimesBitternesscorruption

Stand, now, in your enchantments, and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you may be able to benefit; perhaps you may {scare away}.

Verse ConceptsBabylonAstrologyMagiciansSorcerymagic

I will delay My anger for the honor of My name,
and I will restrain Myself for your benefit and for My praise,
so that you will not be destroyed.

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfRestraintPunishment, DelayedForbearanceDivine DelaysRestraints From Killing

This is what the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says:

I am Yahweh your God,
who teaches you for your benefit,
who leads you in the way you should go.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAbundant Lifediscipline, divinedecisionsGod's WaysLife, Of FaithRedemption, In OtGod As Our TeacherFollowing GodTrue GainBusinessCareer SuccessMillionaire Mentalityinvesting

I myself will declare your righteousness and your works, but they will not benefit you.

Verse ConceptsUnprofitable Sins

Thus says the Lord,
“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
And one says, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is benefit in it,’
So I will act on behalf of My servants
In order not to destroy all of them.

Verse ConceptsGrapesNot DestroyedFor The Sake Of God's People

Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
my refuge in a time of distress,
the nations will come to You
from the ends of the earth, and they will say,
“Our fathers inherited only lies,
worthless idols of no benefit at all.”

Verse ConceptsFutilityAfflicted SaintsConversion, examples ofFalse GodsGod, The RockIdolatry, Objections ToUseless ThingsMission, Of IsraelRefugeesGod Being Our RefugeVanityGod Our StrengthThe Gospel To The NationsFamily Strength

If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

Verse ConceptsDisobedience, To GodGod Changing His MindGod Doing Good

I am against those who prophesy false dreams”—the Lord’s declaration—“telling them and leading My people astray with their falsehoods and their boasting. It was not I who sent or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

Verse ConceptsLiesMisleading DreamsBeing MisleadGod Not SendingDreams And False Prophets


Let him sit alone [in hope] and keep quiet,
Because God has laid it on him [for his benefit].

Verse ConceptsSilenceIsolated PersonsSitting In DejectionPeople Being Silent

Then you'll know that I am the LORD, when I will have dealt with you for the benefit of my own reputation and not according to your evil attitudes or corrupt practices, you house of Israel," declares the Lord GOD.

Verse ConceptsReinstatementFor The Sake Of His Name

"Woe to those who are craving the Day of the LORD! How is it to your benefit, this Day of the LORD? It's a day of darkness to you, and not light.

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodThe Fact Of That DayWoe To Israel And JerusalemHaving A Good DayJudgement Day

Doth the house of Jacob say, 'Hath the Spirit of Jehovah been shortened? Are these His doings?' Do not My words benefit the people that is walking uprightly?

Verse ConceptsGood WorksThe Spirit Of GodBible MemorizationReceiving God's WordGod Doing GoodWhat God Does

"Where is the benefit in owning a carved image, that motivates its maker to carve it? It is only a cast image a teacher that lies because the engraver entrusts himself to his carving, crafting speechless idols.

Verse ConceptsCreativitydistrustGod, Uniqueness OfIdolatry, Objections ToMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinSculptureUnreliabilityIdols Not ExistingTrusting IdolsMisteachingDumbnessUseless IdolsIdolatryDumbimageHinduismFutile Faith