Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof: