1 Samuel 12:21
1 Samuel · Old Testament · Chapter 12
“And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.”1 Samuel 12:21
What Does 1 Samuel 12:21 Mean?
1 Samuel 12:21 is found in the book of 1 Samuel, chapter 12, verse 21 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to 1 Samuel 12:21 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Jonah 2:8“They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”Mark 7:7“Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”Acts 14:15“And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:”Deuteronomy 32:21“They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.”Psalms 4:2“O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.”Habakkuk 2:18“What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?”Jeremiah 10:15“They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.”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.”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.”Deuteronomy 11:16“Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;”Jeremiah 2:5“Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?”Jeremiah 14:22“Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.”1 Kings 16:13“For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.”2 Kings 17:15“And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like 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 45:20“Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.”Isaiah 46:7“They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he 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.”1 Corinthians 8:4“As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.”Psalms 115:4“Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.”
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