Isaiah 57:12 “I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not pro…”

Isaiah 57:12

I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

World English Bible

I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

American Standard Version

I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

I will declare thy righteousnes and thy workes, and they shall not profite thee.

Darby Translation

I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; and they shall not profit thee.

Young's Literal Translation

I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

Bible in Basic English

I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.

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Cross references

“I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.”

Isaiah 1:11–15 Jeremiah 7:4–11 Micah 3:2–4 Romans 3:10–20 Isaiah 58:2–6 Isaiah 59:6–8

Isaiah 1:11–15 · BSB

“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

Jeremiah 7:4–11 · BSB

Do not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’

Micah 3:2–4 · BSB

You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.

Romans 3:10–20 · BSB

As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.

Isaiah 58:2–6 · BSB

For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”

Isaiah 59:6–8 · BSB

Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.

Also

Matthew 23:13 Isaiah 29:15

Matthew 23:13 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Isaiah 29:15 · BSB

Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear Me?

13When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”

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