Thematic Bible: Sin unprofitable, general references to


Thematic Bible



They have sown wheat but harvested thorns.
They have exhausted themselves but have no profit.
Be put to shame by your harvests
because of the Lord’s burning anger.

Why do you spend money on what is not food,
and your wages on what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.

He will look at men and say,
“I have sinned and perverted what was right;
yet I did not get what I deserved.




Don’t turn away to follow worthless things that can’t profit or deliver you; they are worthless.

For the evil have no future;
the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

All who make idols are nothing,
and what they treasure does not profit.
Their witnesses do not see or know anything,
so they will be put to shame.


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