1 Samuel 12:21
Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
Cross References
Acts 14:15
"Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

Deuteronomy 11:16
But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,

Isaiah 41:29
See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.

Habakkuk 2:18
What 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.


Treasury of Scripture
And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

vain things



Deuteronomy 32:21
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.



Jeremiah 2:5,13
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? …



Jeremiah 10:8,15
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities…

cannot profit



Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands…



Isaiah 41:23,24
Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together…



Isaiah 44:9,10
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed…


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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