1 Samuel 12:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.”
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“Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they <FI>are<Fi> vain,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Samuel 12:21 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 11:16But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,
- Deuteronomy 30:17But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,
- Deuteronomy 32:21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
- 2 Kings 17:15They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
- Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- Isaiah 41:23Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay.
- Isaiah 41:29See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
- Isaiah 44:9All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.
- Isaiah 45:20Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
- Isaiah 46:7They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.
- Jeremiah 2:5This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
- Jeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- Jeremiah 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
- Jeremiah 10:15They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
- Jeremiah 14:22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
- Jeremiah 16:19O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.
- Jonah 2:8Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
- Jonah 2:9But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”
- Habakkuk 2:18What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
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