1 Samuel 12:21
1 Samuel chapter 12 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000and turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901and turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
Context
v.20And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have indeed done all this evil; yet turn not aside from following Jehovah, but serve Jehovah with all your heart:
v.21This passage
v.22For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it hath pleased Jehovah to make you a people unto himself.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 10:15
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- Isaiah 46:7
They bear it upon the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it standeth, from its place shall it not remove: yea, one may cry unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
- Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
- Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.
- Psalms 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.