10 Bible Verses about Unprofitable Sins

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

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

Don't turn aside; for [then you would go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.

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

for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

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

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?