THEOSIS1 Kingdoms (1 Samuel) 12:21Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.
וְלֹ֖א תָּס֑וּרוּ כִּ֣י ׀ אַחֲרֵ֣י הַתֹּ֗הוּ אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יוֹעִ֛ילוּ וְלֹ֥א יַצִּ֖ילוּ כִּי־תֹ֥הוּ הֵֽמָּה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Hab 2:18What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.
- Jer 16:19O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them.
- Jer 10:15They are vain things, and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- Jer 14:22Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.
- Deut 11:16Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:
- Isa 46:7They bear him on their shoulders and carry him, and set him in his place, and he shall stand, and shall not stir out of his place. Yea, when they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear: he shall not save them from tribulation.
- Isa 44:9The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed.
- Isa 44:10Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing?