Bible Verses About Profit

In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury.

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision?

And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die: and what profit shall this birth-right bring to me?

And turn ye not aside: for then [would ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.

And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws [are] diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it [is] not for the king's profit to suffer them.

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be to thee? [and], What profit shall I have, [if I be cleansed] from my sin?

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.

And this also [is] a grievous evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath labored for the wind?

They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

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.

Stand now with thy enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast labored from thy youth; if thou shalt be able to profit, if thou mayest prevail.

Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I [am] the LORD thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way [that] thou shouldst go.

The priests said not, Where [is] the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit.

Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which] doth not profit.

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, [but] shall not profit; and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

O LORD, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] in which [there is] no profit.

Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.

Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God: and what profit [is it] that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

Even as I please all [men] in all [things], not seeking my own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.

Now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in languages, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

Of these things put [them] in remembrance, charging [them] before the Lord that they contend not about words to no profit, [but] to the subverting of the hearers.

For to us was the gospel preached, as well as to them: but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard [it].

For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.

What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man sayeth he hath faith, and hath not works? can faith save him?

And one of you sayeth to them, Depart in peace, be you warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit?

And Judah said to his brethren, What profit [is it] if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood.

What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?

Yes, to what [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age had perished?

Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art]: and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man.

What profit hath a man of all his labor, which he taketh under the sun?

What profit hath he that worketh in that in which he laboreth?

Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.

Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.

The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence [come] the young and the old lion, the viper and flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people [that] shall not profit [them].

I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul:

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man for profit.

Behold, I Paul say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.