10 Bible Verses about Unprofitable Sins

“They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns,
They have strained themselves to no profit.
But be ashamed of your harvest
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”

“I will declare your righteousness and your deeds,
But they will not profit you.

You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.

“He will sing to men and say,
‘I have sinned and perverted what is right,
And it is not proper for me.

Ill-gotten gains do not profit,
But righteousness delivers from death.

For there will be no future for the evil man;
The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

“Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And delight yourself in abundance.

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself?