Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'profitable' occurs 13 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'profitable' in the standard works and contain 30.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 2 minutes to read the entire list.

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Job 22:2 (2 in 1 verse)


Matt. 5:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

 5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

 5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 5 1 6
NT 8 7 15
BM 0 2 2
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 13 10 23

Job 15:3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

Job 22:2
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

Eccl. 10:10
If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

Isa. 44:10
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

Jer. 13:7
Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

Matt. 5:29
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Matt. 5:30
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Matt. 25:30
And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 17:10
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Acts 20:20
And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,

Rom. 3:12
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

1 Tim. 4:8
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

2 Tim. 3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

2 Tim. 4:11
Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

Titus 3:8
This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Philem. 1:11
Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

Heb. 7:18
For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

Heb. 13:17
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Mosiah 2:21
I say unto you that if ye should serve him who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own will, and even supporting you from one moment to another-- I say, if ye should serve him with all your whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable servants.

Mosiah 22:4
And now O king, if thou hast not found me to be an unprofitable servant, or if thou hast hitherto listened to my words in any degree, and they have been of service to thee, even so I desire that thou wouldst listen to my words at this time, and I will be thy servant and deliver this people out of bondage.