1 Samuel 12:21
And turn ye not aside: for after vain , which cannot profit nor deliver; for they vain.
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Context
19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for your servants unto the Yahuah your Elohim, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins evil, to ask us a king.
20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the Yahuah, but serve the Yahuah with all your heart;
21 And turn ye not aside: for after vain , which cannot profit nor deliver; for they vain.
22 For the Yahuah will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it has pleased the Yahuah to make you his people.
23 Moreover as for me, Elohim forbid that I should sin against the Yahuah in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way: