1 Samuel 12:21

Tree of Life Version

Do not turn aside to go after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are futile.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

So they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them. Instead they went after futile things and became futile, following the nations that surrounded them, about whom Adonai had charged them not to emulate.

Isaiah 41:29

Indeed, they are all a delusion. Their works are null. Their molten images are wind and waste.

Isaiah 45:20

“Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, fugitives of the nations! Those who carry their wooden idols have no knowledge, praying to a god who cannot save.

Isaiah 46:7

They lift it upon a shoulder and carry it. They set in its place and there it stands. It does not budge from its place. Even if one cry to it, it cannot answer, nor save anyone from his trouble.”

Jeremiah 10:15

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

Jeremiah 10:8

They are totally stupid and foolish. Discipline is useless—it’s wood!

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any of the idols of the nations bring rain? Or can the skies grant showers? Is it not You, Adonai our God? Do we not wait for You? For You have done all these things.

Jeremiah 16:19

Adonai, my strength, my stronghold, my refuge in the day of affliction, to You will the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, futility and useless things.”

Jeremiah 2:13

“My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me —the spring of living water— and they dug their own cisterns— cracked cisterns that hold no water.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says Adonai: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They walked after worthless things, becoming worthless themselves?

Jonah 2:8

As my soul was fading from me, I remembered Adonai and my prayer came to You, toward Your holy Temple.

Jonah 2:9

Those who watch worthless empty things forsake their mercy.

Habakkuk 2:18

What use is an idol when its craftsman has carved it? Or a metal image—a teacher of lies? For a craftsman has trusted in the image that he created, to make dumb idols.

Acts 14:15

and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We too are human, just like you! We proclaim the Good News to you, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the 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 idol sacrifices, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Deuteronomy 11:16

Watch yourselves, so your heart is not deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them.

Deuteronomy 30:17

But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away and bow down to other gods and worship them,

Deuteronomy 32:21

They made Me jealous with a non-god. They vexed Me with airy idols. So I will make them jealous with a non-people. With a foolish nation I will vex them.