This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.
even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.
If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
Don't turn aside; for [then you would go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
But Hezekiah didn't render again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.
In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;
It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Select the best and fittest of your master's sons, set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house."
Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"
Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than those of other peoples. They do not keep the king's laws. Therefore it is not to the king's benefit to allow them to remain.
giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.
in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace;
"'Therefore it is better to be a king who displays his power, or else a profitable vessel in a house, which the owner shall have use of, than such false gods, or to be a door in an house, to keep such things therein, than such false gods, or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods.
Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people's. They don't keep the king's laws. Therefore it is not for the king's profit to allow them to remain.
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and its midst is burned: is it profitable for any work?
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.
For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach."
The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
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.
Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
"Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
The priests didn't say, 'Where is the LORD?' and those who handle the law didn't know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
Has a nation changed [its] gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.
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 the LORD.
Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
the LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.
if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.
Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says the LORD.
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
"Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?
He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'
That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
For our servitude will not be directed towards our benefit, but the Lord our God will turn it to our dishonor.
And may God turn these things to your benefit as a perpetual praise, to assist you in good things because you have not withheld your life during the affliction of our nation, but have revenged our ruin, walking a straight path before our God." And all the people said, "Amen! Amen!"
Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.
You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."
It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?
But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"'
For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
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?
Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn't go out by night.
"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright.
Praise the LORD, my soul, and don't forget all his benefits;
What will I give to the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."
And it happened, as they watched for a fitting time, that she went in as before with two maids only, and she intended to wash herself in the garden, for it was hot.
They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
But say the things which fit sound doctrine,
This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
for it is fitting that you should marry my daughter. Nevertheless I will declare to you the truth.
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