6 Bible Verses about Useful People

For as these qualities are yours and are increasing [in you as you grow toward spiritual maturity], they will keep you from being useless and unproductive in regard to the true knowledge and greater understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things [which are dishonorable—disobedient, sinful], he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified [set apart for a special purpose and], useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

“Can a vigorous man be of use to God,
Or a wise man be useful to himself?

I appeal to you for my [own spiritual] child Onesimus, whom I have fathered [in the faith] while a captive in these chains.

Once he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you as well as to me.

Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very helpful to me for the ministry.