Profit

Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?

They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.

For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

A leader who lacks judgment is also a great oppressor, but he who hates dishonest profit will prolong his days.

When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?

For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone?

If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.

Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.

This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?

For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”

Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed for profit into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.