10 Bible Verses about Unprofitable Sins
Most Relevant Verses
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns. They are worn out, but they do not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
And do not turn aside to go after vanities, which cannot profit nor deliver. For they are vain.
He will observe to men, and say, I have sinned and perverted righteousness; and it was not equally repaid to me,
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivers from death.
for there shall not be a hereafter to the evil; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Those who make a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.
Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
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 gains the whole world and loses himself, or is cast away?