10 Bible Verses about Unprofitable Sins

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you.

And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.

For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

They that make a graven image are all of them nothing; and their precious things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfies not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or suffer loss?