1 Samuel 12:21

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Do not turn aside, for you would be following things that are worthless and cannot benefit or deliver you, for they are meaningless.

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  • Hab 2:18 : 18 What profit is an idol when its maker has carved it, or a cast image that teaches falsehood? For its maker trusts in his own creation to make worthless idols that cannot speak.
  • Jer 10:15 : 15 They are worthless, a work of mockery; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.
  • Jer 16:19 : 19 LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of trouble! Nations will come to You from the ends of the earth and say, 'Our ancestors inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols that do not profit at all.'
  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Can the skies themselves send showers? No, it is You, LORD our God. Therefore, we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 So then, concerning eating food sacrificed to idols: we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and there is no God but one.
  • Isa 45:20 : 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.
  • Isa 46:7 : 7 They lift it on their shoulders and carry it; they set it in its place, and there it stays. It does not move from its spot. If someone cries to it, it cannot answer or save them from their troubles.
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 This is what the LORD says: ‘What fault did your ancestors find in me that they strayed so far from me? They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves.
  • Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols.
  • Deut 11:16 : 16 But be careful, or your heart might be deceived, and you will turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.
  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They made Me jealous with something that is not God; they provoked Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a nation; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.
  • Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 5 They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see. 6 They have ears but cannot hear, noses but cannot smell. 7 They have hands but cannot touch, feet but cannot walk, nor can they make a sound with their throats. 8 Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
  • Isa 41:23-24 : 23 Tell us what the future holds, so we may know that you are gods. Do something, whether good or bad, so that we might be dismayed and filled with awe. 24 Look, you are nothing, and your works are less than nothing; anyone who chooses you is an abomination.
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, all of them are worthless; their works are nothing; their metal idols are wind and emptiness.
  • Isa 44:9-9 : 9 All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses see nothing and know nothing, so they will be put to shame. 10 Who fashions a god or casts an idol that can profit nothing?
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer rose to You, to Your holy temple.

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    15If you turn away from following Him, He will abandon them again in the wilderness, and you will bring destruction on all these people."

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    8As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer rose to You, to Your holy temple.

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