And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.


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2 Chronicles 19 7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
Colossians 3 23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
Colossians 2 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Job 35 3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Proverbs 30 9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Psalms 35 23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Ecclesiastes 5 1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Isaiah 57 12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
1 Timothy 4 16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Psalms 31 16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
1 Peter 5 2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
Psalms 71 2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
Hebrews 12 10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Jeremiah 45 5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
Proverbs 20 25 It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
Proverbs 22 25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
1 Thessalonians 3 5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
1 Corinthians 6 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Corinthians 10 33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Psalms 141 8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
2 Chronicles 29 11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
Psalms 19 13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
2 Timothy 1 8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
Psalms 141 4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Acts 20 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Deuteronomy 8 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
2 Timothy 2 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
Romans 6 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Psalms 33 10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Hosea 10 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Psalms 119 49 Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
Revelation 3 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Psalms 119 17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
Acts 20 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Psalms 143 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Hosea 12 6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on thy God continually.
Galatians 1 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Ecclesiastes 8 3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
John 8 50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
Proverbs 28 10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
Malachi 3 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Job 36 21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Proverbs 2 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Deuteronomy 11 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
2 Chronicles 30 8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
Deuteronomy 13 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
Ecclesiastes 7 21 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
Proverbs 27 2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Deuteronomy 18 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Psalms 141 9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.