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Profited [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Benefited; advanced in interest or happiness; improved.

2. What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Matthew 16:26 .

Profited [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Profit

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Job 33:27

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

Matthew 15:5

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’

Matthew 16:26

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Mark 7:11

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.

But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God),

Galatians 1:14

And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Hebrews 13:9

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.

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.

Wisdom of Solomon 5:8

What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us?

Sirach 33:16

I awaked up last of all, as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers: by the blessing of the Lord I profited, and tred my winepress like a gatherer of grapes.

Sirach 51:17

I profited therein, therefore will I ascribe glory unto him that giveth me wisdom.