ὠφελέω
KJV Translations of G5623
advantage, better, prevail, profit
Word Origin & Derivation
from the same as G5622 (ὠφέλεια);
G5623 in the King James Bible
15 versesBehold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
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?
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.