'Profit' in the Bible
Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.
Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation.
And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.
But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching?
For your giving of the blessing is certainly well done, but of no profit to the man without knowledge.
But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.
If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Avails (1 instance)
- Benefit (115 instances)
- Benefit (115 instances)
- Crop (52 instances)
- Earnings (12 instances)
- Fruit (338 instances)
- Gain (180 instances)
- Harvest (161 instances)
- Income (17 instances)
- Net (93 instances)
- Profit (166 instances)
- Profits (30 instances)
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