'Profit' in the Bible

and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they are vain,

To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them?

What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, 'He hath no helper.'

For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

For thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.

All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!

Framers of a graven image are all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they are, They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

Stand, I pray thee, in thy charms, And in the multitude of thy sorceries, In which thou hast laboured from thy youth, It may be thou art able to profit, It may be thou dost terrify!

Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, 'I am Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.

I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

The priests have not said, 'Where is Jehovah?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.

Hath a nation changed gods? (And they are no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.

Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit.

They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick -- they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb idols?

for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.

What, then, is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision?

And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.

And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;

And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?

lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

Yes, brother, may I have profit of thee in the Lord; refresh my bowels in the Lord;

for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

and any one of you may say to them, 'Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what is the profit?

These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;