10 Bible Verses about Useful Things

Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing;

You do not reflect that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish."

(It was this Caiaphas who had advised the Jews, saying, "It is to your interest that one man should die for the People.")

"Yet it is the truth that I am telling you--it is to your advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

If therefore your eye, even the right eye, is a snare to you, tear it out and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna.

And if your right hand is a snare to you, cut it off and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should go into Gehenna.

and that I never shrank from declaring to you anything that was profitable, or from teaching you in public and in your homes,

Train yourself in godliness. Exercise for the body is not useless, but godliness is useful in every respect, possessing, as it does, the promise of Life now and of the Life which is soon coming.

This is a faithful saying, and on these various points I would have you insist strenuously, in order that those who have their faith fixed on God may be careful to set an example of good actions. For these are not only good in themselves, but are also useful to mankind.

For land which has drunk in the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sakes, indeed, it is tilled, has a share in God's blessing.