'Profit' in the Bible
All things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
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.
Let no one seek [only] his own good, but [also] that of the other person.
Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.
Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
For your giving of the blessing is certainly well done, but of no profit to the man without knowledge.
But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.
If, to speak after the manner of man, I have fought with beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me if those that are dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Avails (1 instance)
- Benefit (115 instances)
- Benefit (115 instances)
- Crop (52 instances)
- Earnings (12 instances)
- Fruit (338 instances)
- Gain (180 instances)
- Harvest (161 instances)
- Income (17 instances)
- Net (93 instances)
- Profit (166 instances)
- Profits (30 instances)
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