1 Samuel 12:21 - Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And do not choose to turn aside after vanities, which will never benefit you, nor rescue you, since they are empty.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ and turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And turn not aside after vain and worthless things which cannot profit or deliver you, for they are empty and futile.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ and turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

Common English Bible

²¹ Don’t turn aside to follow useless idols that can’t help you or save you. They’re absolutely useless!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And turn not aside after vain things which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.

1 Samuel 12:21 Cross References

Habakkuk 2:18

Of what benefit is the graven image? For its maker has formed it, a molten and imaginary deception. For its maker has hoped in a figment of his own creation, so as to make a dumb likeness.

Jeremiah 16:19

"O Lord, my strength, and my health, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: the Gentiles will approach you from the ends of the earth, and they will say: 'Truly, our fathers possessed a lie, an emptiness that has not benefited them.'

Jeremiah 10:15

These things are empty, and they are a work deserving of ridicule. In the time of their visitation, they will perish.

Jeremiah 14:22

Could any of the graven images of the Gentiles send rain? Or are the heavens able to give showers? Have we not hoped in you, the Lord our God? For you have made all these things."

Deuteronomy 11:16

Be careful, lest perhaps your heart may be deceived, and you might withdraw from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them.

1 Corinthians 8:4

But as to the foods that are immolated to idols, we know that an idol in the world is nothing, and that no one is God, except One.

Jonah 2:8

When my soul was in anguish within me, I called to mind the Lord, so that my prayer might come to you, to your holy temple.

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the Fountain of living water, and they have dug for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that are unable to hold water.

Isaiah 46:7

They carry him on their shoulders, supporting him, and they set him in his place. And he will stand still and will not move from his place. But even when they will cry out to him, he will not hear. He will not save them from tribulation.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves, and approach, and draw near together, you who have been saved among the Gentiles. They lack knowledge, who lift up the wood of their sculpture, and who petition a god unable to save.

Jeremiah 10:8

Together, they will all be proven to be unwise and foolish. The doctrine of their vanity is made of wood.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord: "What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they would draw far away from me, and would walk after emptiness, and would become empty?

Isaiah 41:29

Behold, they are all unjust, and their works are empty. Their idols are wind and emptiness.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have provoked me with that which was not God, and they have angered me with their emptiness. And so, I will provoke them with that which is not a people, and I will anger them with a foolish nation.

Acts 14:15

In previous generations, he permitted all nations to walk in their own ways.

Deuteronomy 30:17

But if your heart will have been turned aside, so that you are not willing to listen, and, having been deceived by error, you adore strange gods and serve them,

2 Kings 17:15

And they cast aside his ordinances, and the covenant that he formed with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified to them. And they pursued vanities and acted vainly. And they followed the nations that were all around them, concerning the things which the Lord had commanded them not to do, and which they did.

Jonah 2:9

Those who in vain observe vanities, abandon their own mercy.