1 Samuel 12:21

21And ado not turn aside after bempty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

Jeremiah 16:19

19 cO Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
dmy refuge in the day of trouble,
eto you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
fworthless things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 23:32

32Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and glead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when hI did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.

Matthew 16:26

26For iwhat will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or jwhat shall a man give in return for his soul?

1 Corinthians 10:33

33just as kI try to please everyone in everything I do, lnot seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

1 Corinthians 12:7

7 mTo each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

1 Corinthians 13:3

3 nIf I give away all I have, and oif I deliver up my body to be burned,
Some manuscripts  deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
but have not love, I gain nothing.

2 Timothy 2:14

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14Remind them of these things, and qcharge them before God
Some manuscripts the Lord
snot to quarrel about words, twhich does no good, but only ruins the hearers.
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