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)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 5 1 6
Job 2 1 3
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 1 0 1
Jer. 1 0 1
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.