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Summary
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Vain things
Cannot profit
General references
Bible References
Vain things
Deuteronomy 32:21 ‘They have made Me jealous with what is not God;
They have provoked Me to anger with theiridols.
So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,
They have provoked Me to anger with their
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus says the Lord,
“What injustice did your fathers find in Me,
That they went far from Me
And walked afteremptiness and became empty?
“
That they went far from Me
And walked after
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether stupid and foolish
In their discipline ofdelusion—their idol is wood!
In their discipline of
Jeremiah 14:22 Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rain?
Or can the heavens grant showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore wehope in You,
For You are the one who has done all these things.
Or can the heavens grant showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore we
For You are the one who has done all these things.
Jeremiah 16:19 O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
And myrefuge in the day of distress,
To You thenations will come
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Our fathers have inherited nothing butfalsehood,
Futility andthings of no profit.”
And my
To You the
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but
Futility and
Jonah 2:8 “Those who regard vain idols
Forsake their faithfulness,
Forsake their faithfulness,
Habakkuk 2:18 “What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Oran image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its makertrusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.
Or
For its maker
When he fashions speechless idols.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.
Cannot profit
Psalm 115:4 Their idols are silver and gold,
Thework of man’s hands.
The
Isaiah 41:23 Declare the things that are going to come afterward,
That we may know that you are gods;
Indeed,do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.
That we may know that you are gods;
Indeed,
Isaiah 44:9
Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.
Isaiah 45:20 “Gather yourselves and come;
Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations;
They have no knowledge,
Whocarry about their wooden idol
Andpray to a god who cannot save.
Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations;
Who
And
Isaiah 46:7 “They lift it upon the shoulder and carry it;
They set it in its place and it stands there.
It does not move from its place.
Though one may cry to it, itcannot answer;
Itcannot deliver him from his distress.
They set it in its place and it stands there.
Though one may cry to it, it
It
Jeremiah 10:15 They are worthless, a work of mockery;
In thetime of their punishment they will perish.
In the
General references
Jonah 2:8 “Those who regard vain idols
Forsake their faithfulness,
Forsake their faithfulness,