John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. (See RSV)
1 Corinthians 7:21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. (See RSV)
Galatians 5:2 Remember that it is I Paul who tell you that if you receive circumcision Christ will avail you nothing. (WEY)
Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. (Root in KJV ASV WBS YLT RSV)
Hebrews 9:17 And a will is only of force in the case of a deceased person, being never of any avail so long as he who made it lives. (WEY ASV)
Esther 3:4 Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn't listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew. (See RSV)
Esther 5:13 Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Job 36:18 Because there is wrath, beware lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee. (DBY)
Job 36:19 Will thy riches avail, that are without stint, or all the forces of thy strength? (JPS ASV RSV)
Job 41:26 If one lay at him with the sword, it cannot avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. (ASV NAS RSV)
Psalms 39:2 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred. (See RSV)
Proverbs 21:30 Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord. (See RSV)
Isaiah 16:12 And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect. (See NIV)
Isaiah 57:10 Thou wast wearied by the multitude of thy ways; but thou saidst not, It is of no avail. Thou didst find a quickening of thy strength; therefore thou wast not sick of it. (DBY)
Daniel 11:27 As for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed. (See RSV NIV)