The flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
There is none other God but Him—He Who hath created you from a single soul,(47) and I have no control over what profiteth Me or harmeth Me, but as My Lord pleaseth.
Thus, in any case, nothing profiteth him but that he be mindful of Allah and occupy himself with gaining his livelihood in this world and securing his place in the next.
This is again attested by St. Paul: "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
But this faith profiteth not, unless God himself write his law in your heart (Jer.
Thus We unfold to your eyes that which profiteth you, if ye but perceive.
Take ye counsel together, and let your concern be only for that which profiteth mankind, and bettereth the condition thereof, if ye be of them that scan heedfully.
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
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?
We desire naught for you but that which profiteth you as hath been recorded in His Preserved Tablet.
The fifteenth Glad-Tidings Although a republican form of government profiteth all the peoples of the world, yet the majesty of kingship is one of the signs of God.
Occupy yourselves with that which profiteth yourselves and others.
Guard against idleness and sloth, and cling unto that which profiteth mankind, whether young or old, whether high or low.
This is indeed what profiteth you in this world, and in that which is to come.
Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
It is the spirit that quickeneth: the fleshprofiteth nothing.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
The fleshprofiteth nothing: it is the spirit that quickeneth.
But all men ought not to be buried promiscuously in the church: for it seemeth that that place of sepulchre profiteth not.
But in a Mass of requiem the gospel is not read in that exalted place, but at the altar, to signify that preaching profiteth not the departed.
The sacrament of necessity only is baptism, which when administered by anyone, so it be in the form of the Church, in the greatest extremity profiteth unto salvation.
For this reason is the interior sprinkled, to signify that an external ablution profiteth nothing without an internal charity.
But it little profiteth him that approacheth to the altar to have high dignity, and a life sunk low in sins.
And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
He quoted the words of Christ, 'The fleshprofiteth nothing' (St. John vi.
And likewise also is it counted evil unto a man, if he shall pray, and not with real intent of heart; yea, and it profiteth him nothing; for God receiveth none such.
What profiteth it a man, though he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
For behold, God bath said, A man being evil cannot do that which is good; for if he offereth a gift, or prayeth unto God, except he shall do it with real intent it profiteth him nothing.
What profiteth amitie in apparent presence, when confidence is fraudulentlie beguiled in absence?
Or whatprofiteth princes to aduance and promote their subiects, if after their death, the bountifulnesse by them shewed, be of the receiuers of the same and their sequele neither regarded nor yet remembred?
For bodily exercise profiteth little: But godliness is good unto all things, as a thing which hath promises of the life that is now, and of the life to come.
And though I bestowed all my goods to feed the poor, and though I gave my body even that I burned, and yet had no love, it profiteth me nothing.
He that speaketh with tongues, profiteth himself: he that prophesieth edifieth the congregation.
It is the spirit that quickeneth, the fleshprofiteth nothing.
Take ye counsel together, and let your concern be only for that which profiteth mankind and bettereth the condition thereof.
Thus good judgment and prudence are better than wealth, for that understanding profiteth at all times and seasons.
It would also be an impious assertion, to say that Christ's flesh profiteth nothing.
However, they clung to their opinion and cited especially John 6, 63, where Christ says: "The flesh profiteth nothing.
Thys sayth Fabius, euery yere furthered and increased profiteth to a great summe and as much tyme as is taken before in the infancie, is gotten to the elder age.
Hence, "If I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, but have not love it profiteth me nothing.
Demestow nat,' quod she, 'that al thing that profitethis good?
It is a wonder that I desire to telle, and forthy unnethe may I unpleyten my sentence with wordes; for I deme that contrarious Fortune profiteth more to men than Fortune debonaire.
Yet continue to admonish: for admonition profiteththe true believers.
They also hold that disobedience with faith hurteth not; and that, on the other hand, obedience with infidelity profiteth not.
When he said unto his father, O my father,f why dost thou worship that which heareth not, neither seeth, nor profiteth thee at all?
Then Paul contrasts it with sacrifice and martyrdom: "If I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profitethme nothing.
A common place shall bee, wyth wordes to exaggerate howe much it profiteth to keepe goodnesse, to bee in companye wyth good men, and contrarye howe greate myschyefe the companye of euyll men dothe cause.
The vse of circũstances profiteth to amplifie, to extenuate, to euidence, to confirmacion, and probabilitie.
Resumed the Lieutenant, "Inform me concerning the son of Adam what injureth him and what profiteth him?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "profiteth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
