'Profit' in the Bible

And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die. And what profit shall the birthright do to me?

And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?

and turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from those of every people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And , What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of silver, And the profit thereof than fine gold.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death.

Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death.

In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?

They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them .

They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.

The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

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

O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is no profit.

Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, saith Jehovah.

Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal.

But now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.

For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?