Genesis 25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point of dying; and what shall this birthright profit me?
Genesis 37:26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
1 Samuel 12:21 And turn ye not aside; for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Esther 3:8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws; therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Job 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him; and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Job 30:2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
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?
Job 35:8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Psalms 30:9 When I go down to the pit, my blood shall return to the dust. I will praise thee; my soul shall declare thy truth; for what profit am I, if I do it not?
Proverbs 10:2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 14:23 In all labor there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Ecclesiastes 1:3 What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?
Ecclesiastes 5:9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all; the king himself is served by the field.
Ecclesiastes 5:16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit hath he that hath labored for the wind?
Ecclesiastes 7:11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance; and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
Isaiah 30:5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
Isaiah 30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south; into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
Isaiah 44:9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 47:12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Isaiah 48:17 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
Isaiah 57:12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
Jeremiah 2:8 The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not; the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
Jeremiah 2:11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Jeremiah 7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
Jeremiah 12:13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit; and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
Jeremiah 16:19 O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Jeremiah 23:32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord.
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?
Mark 8:39 For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Luke 9:25 For what doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and yet he receive him not whom God hath ordained, and he lose his own soul, and he himself be a castaway?
Romans 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew over the Gentile? or what profit of circumcision, who is not a Jew from the heart?
1 Corinthians 7:35 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.
1 Corinthians 10:33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but of the many, that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians 12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
1 Corinthians 14:6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
Galatians 5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
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.
Hebrews 4:2 For unto us was the rest preached, as well as unto them; but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
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.
James 2:14 What profit is it, my brethren, for a man to say he hath faith, and hath not works? can faith save him?
James 2:16 For if a brother or sister be naked and destitute, and one of you say, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled; notwithstanding he give not those things which are needful to the body; what profit is your faith unto such?
1 Nephi 6:4 But that I might more fully persuade them to believe in the Lord their Redeemer, I did read unto them that which was written by the prophet Isaiah;
1 Nephi 6:23 Come ye near unto me; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was declared, have I spoken; and the Lord God, and his Spirit hath sent me.
2 Nephi 1:93 And if there is no God, we are not, neither the earth, for there could have been no creation of things, neither to act nor to be acted upon; wherefore, all things must have vanished away.
2 Nephi 3:28 And upon these, I write the things of my soul, and many of the scriptures which are engraven upon the plates of brass:
2 Nephi 4:45 And I, Nephi, had kept the records upon my plates, which I had made of my people, thus far.
Words of Mormon 1:2 And it is many hundred years after the coming of Christ, that I deliver these records into the hands of my son; and it supposeth me that he will witness the entire destruction of my people.
Mosiah 1:10 And behold, also the plates of Nephi, which contain the records and the sayings of our fathers from the time they left Jerusalem, until now; and they are true; and we can know of their surety, because we have them before our eyes.
Alma 16:41 And notwithstanding the many labors which I have performed in the church, I have never received so much as even one senine for my labor; neither has any of my brethren, save it were in the judgment seat; and then we have received only according to law, for our time.
Alma 26:124 And it came to pass that we did wait to receive provisions and strength, from the land of Zarahemla.
3 Nephi 11:16 Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
Moroni 10:8 And again I exhort you, my brethren, that ye deny not the gifts of God, for they are many; and they come from the same God.
DC 46:Intro SECTION 46
Revelation addressed to the church, given through Joseph Smith, Jr., March 8, 1831, at Kirtland, Ohio. This instruction was very important in setting the patterns of public worship in the church, especially in regard to the Sacrament services and the exercise of the spiritual gifts. It was greatly needed, since converts came into the church from so many diverse denominational backgrounds.
DC 46:6a And again, to some it is given by the Holy Ghost to know the differences of administration, as it will be pleasing unto the same Lord, according as the Lord will, suiting his mercies according to the conditions of the children of men.
DC 83:11f and if any man shall administer poison unto them, it shall not hurt them: and the poison of a serpent shall not have power to harm them.
DC 85:6g and they who remain shall also be quickened; nevertheless, they shall return again to their own place, to enjoy that which they are willing to receive, because they were not willing to enjoy that which they might have received.
