1 Samuel 12:21 - New International Version (Anglicised)

²¹ Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless.

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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.

1 Samuel 12:21 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, ‘Do not do as they do.’

Isaiah 41:29

See, they are all false! Their deeds amount to nothing; their images are but wind and confusion.

Isaiah 45:20

‘Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.

Isaiah 46:7

They lift it to their shoulders and carry it; they set it up in its place, and there it stands. From that spot it cannot move. Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer; it cannot save them from their troubles.

Jeremiah 10:15

They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.

Jeremiah 14:22

Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, Lord our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this.

Jeremiah 16:19

Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, ‘Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good.

Jeremiah 2:13

‘My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 2:5

This is what the Lord says: ‘What fault did your ancestors find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

Jonah 2:8

‘Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.

Jonah 2:9

But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. I will say, “Salvation comes from the Lord.” ’

Habakkuk 2:18

‘Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

Acts 14:15

‘Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: we know that ‘An idol is nothing at all in the world’ and that ‘There is no God but one.’

Deuteronomy 11:16

Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.

Deuteronomy 30:17

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

Deuteronomy 32:21

They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.