1 Samuel 12:21

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Habakkuk 2:18

What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my might and my strength and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them.

Jeremiah 10:15

They are vain things and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? For thou hast made all these things.

Deuteronomy 11:16

Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived: and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them.

1 Corinthians 8:4

But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Jonah 2:8

When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto thy holy temple.

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have done two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Isaiah 46:7

They bear him on their shoulders and carry him and set him in his place: and he shall stand and shall not stir out of his place. Yea, when they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear: he shall not save them from tribulation.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw near together, ye that are saved of the Gentiles. They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven work and pray to a god that cannot save.

Jeremiah 10:8

They shall all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain?

Isaiah 41:29

Behold, they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities. And I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.

Acts 14:15

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Deuteronomy 30:17

But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:

2 Kings 17:15

And they rejected his ordinances and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them. And they followed vanities, and acted vainly. And they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

Jonah 2:9

They that are vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.