1 Samuel 12:21 - Modern King James Version

²¹ And do not turn aside to go after vanities, which cannot profit nor deliver. For they are vain.

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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!

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.

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 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 17:15

And they rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He testified against them. And they went after the vain thing, and became vain, and after the nations around them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them not to do like them.

Isaiah 41:29

Behold, they are all evil; their works are nothing; their images are wind and vanity.

Isaiah 45:20

Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, escaped ones of the nations; those who set up the wood of their graven image, and those that pray to a god that cannot save. They know nothing.

Isaiah 46:7

They carry it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands; it shall not move from its place. Yes, one shall cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

Jeremiah 10:15

They are vanity, the work of delusion; in the time of their judgment they shall perish.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the vanities of the nations who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God? Then we will wait on You; for You do all these things.

Jeremiah 16:19

O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.

Jeremiah 2:13

For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 2:5

So says Jehovah, What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

Jonah 2:8

They who take heed to lying vanities forsake their kindness;

Jonah 2:9

but I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will fulfill that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Jehovah!

Habakkuk 2:18

What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of lies? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make dumb idols?

Acts 14:15

and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preaching the gospel to you to turn you from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them;

1 Corinthians 8:4

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

Deuteronomy 11:16

Take heed to yourselves that your heart may not be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods, and worship them,

Deuteronomy 30:17

But if you turn away your heart, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have moved Me to jealousy with a no-god. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities. And I will move them to jealousy with a no-people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.