10 Bible Verses about Unprofitable Sins

My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.

I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.

You should not turn aside after empty things that can't profit and can't deliver, since they are empty.

That person sings to others, saying: 'I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from mortal danger.

for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.

Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food!

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?