Verses with the word profitable in the Apocrypha (8 verses):
Tobit 3:6
Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me.
Tobit 4:18
Ask counsel of all that are wise, and despise not any counsel that is profitable.
Wisdom of Solomon 8:7
And if a man love righteousness her labours are virtues: for she teacheth temperance and prudence, justice and fortitude: which are such things, as en can have nothing more profitable in their life.
Sirach 10:4
The power of the earth is in the hand of the Lord, and in due time he will set over it one that is profitable.
Sirach 37:28
For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath every soul pleasure in every thing.
Baruch 4:3
Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:58
Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power, or else a profitable vessel in an house, which the owner shall have use of, than such false gods; or to be a door in an house, to keep such things therein, than such false gods. or a pillar of wood in a a palace, than such false gods.
2 Maccabees 12:12
Then Judas, thinking indeed that they would be profitable in many things, granted them peace: whereupon they shook hands, and so they departed to their tents.