G4851 συμφέρω
symphérō — to bear together (contribute), i.e. (literally) to collect, or (figuratively) to conduce; especially (neuter participle as a noun) advantage
KJV: be better for, bring together, be expedient (for), be good, (be) profit(-able for)
Built from σύν sýn (with or together) + φέρω phérō (to "bear" or carry)
Occurs 26 times. Every verse with this word
Where it occurs
- Matthew 5:29 — If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you…
- Matthew 5:30 — If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you…
- Matthew 18:6 — but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge…
- Matthew 19:10 — His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”
- John 11:50 — nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation…
- John 16:7 — Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t…
- John 18:14 — Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Judeans that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.
- Acts 19:19 — Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted…
- Acts 20:20 — how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
- 1 Corinthians 6:12 — “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be…