thoughts to profit you

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What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols! Habakkuk 2:18 (RSV)

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? Romans 3:1 (ASV)

All who make idols are nothing, and what they treasure does not profit. Their witnesses do not see or know ⌊anything⌋, so they will be put to shame. Who makes a god or casts a metal image for no profit? Isaiah 44:9-10 (HCSB)

So don't waste your time on a scoffer; all you'll get for your pains is abuse. But if you correct those who care about life, that's
different—they'll love you for it!
Save your breath for the wise—they'll be wiser for it; tell good people what you know—they'll profit from it.  Proverbs 9:8-9 (MSG)

For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?
Matthew 16:25-26 (RSV)

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