1 Samuel 12:21

Legacy Standard Bible

And you must not turn aside, for then you would go after meaningless things which cannot profit and cannot deliver, because they are meaningless.

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2 Kings 17:15

They also rejected His statutes and His covenant which He cut with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which Yahweh had commanded them not to do like them.

Isaiah 41:29

“Behold, all of them are false; Their works are non-existent; Their molten images are wind and utter formlessness.

Isaiah 45:20

¶“Gather yourselves and come; Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations; They do not know, Who carry about their graven image of wood And pray to a god who cannot save.

Isaiah 46:7

“They carry it upon the shoulder and bear it; They set it in its place, and it stands there. It does not move from its place. Though one may cry to it, it cannot answer; It cannot save him from his distress.

Jeremiah 10:15

They are vanity, a work of mockery; In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether senseless and foolish; They are in a discipline of vanities—it is mere wood!

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Yahweh our God? Therefore we hope in You, For You are the one who has done all these things.

Jeremiah 16:19

¶O Yahweh, my strength and my strong defense, And my refuge in the day of distress, To You the nations will come From the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, Futility and things of no profit.”

Jeremiah 2:13

“For My people have done two evils: They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no water.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says Yahweh, “What injustice did your fathers find in Me, That they went far from Me And walked after vanity and became vain?

Jonah 2:8

“Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their lovingkindness,

Jonah 2:9

But as for me, I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving. That which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

Habakkuk 2:18

¶“What profit is the graven image when its maker has engraved it, Or a molten image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own making When he fashions speechless idols.

Acts 14:15

and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, proclaiming the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Therefore, concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Deuteronomy 11:16

Beware lest your hearts be deceived, and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them,

Deuteronomy 30:17

But if your heart turns away and you will not listen, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

Deuteronomy 32:21

‘They have made Me jealous with what is not God; They have provoked Me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a wickedly foolish nation,