'Profit' in the Bible

Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.

You are not to lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit.

Don’t turn away to follow worthless things that can’t profit or deliver you; they are worthless.

Does it delight the Almighty if you are righteous?Does He profit if you perfect your behavior?

For you ask, “What does it profit You,and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?”

You sell Your people for nothing;You make no profit from selling them.

Such are the paths of all who make profit dishonestly;it takes the lives of those who receive it.

Ill-gotten gains do not profit anyone,but righteousness rescues from death.

There is profit in all hard work,but endless talk leads only to poverty.

The plans of the diligent certainly lead to profit,but anyone who is reckless certainly becomes poor.

The profit from the land is taken by all; the king is served by the field.

When good things increase, the ones who consume them multiply; what, then, is the profit to the owner, except to gaze at them with his eyes?

But her profits and wages will be dedicated to the Lord. They will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live in the Lord’s presence, to provide them with ample food and sacred clothing.

All who make idols are nothing,and what they treasure does not profit.Their witnesses do not see or know anything,so they will be put to shame.

Who makes a god or casts a metal imagefor no profit?

I will expose your righteousness,and your works—they will not profit you.

For from the least to the greatest of them,everyone is making profit dishonestly.From prophet to priest,everyone deals falsely.

Therefore, I will give their wives to other men,their fields to new occupants,for from the least to the greatest,everyone is making profit dishonestly.From prophet to priest,everyone deals falsely.

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns.They have exhausted themselves but have no profit.Be put to shame by your harvestsbecause of the Lord’s burning anger.

He doesn’t lend at interest or for profit but keeps his hand from wrongdoing and carries out true justice between men.

and lends at interest or for profit, will he live? He will not live! Since he has committed all these detestable acts, he will certainly die. His blood will be on him.

He keeps his hand from harming the poor, not taking interest or profit on a loan. He practices My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a person will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will certainly live.

People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten Me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Once, as we were on our way to prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit of prediction. She made a large profit for her owners by fortune-telling.

When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

just as I also try to please all people in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, so that they may be saved. >

For we are not like the many who market God’s message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.