22 Bible Verses about Useless People

O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

For it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and the name of it is covered with darkness.

For he knows FALSE men. He also sees iniquity. Will he not then consider it?

But ye are forgers of lies. Ye are all physicians of no value.

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?

[him] who says to a king, [Thou are] vile, to ranking men, [Ye are] wicked,

Thou put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love thy testimonies.

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this sash, which is good for nothing.

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame.

being slandered, we entreat. We became as trash of the world, an offscouring of all things, until now.

Thou have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver. Therefore thus says lord LORD: Because ye have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem

A man formerly unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable to thee and to me, whom I sent back.

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye. His arm shall be entirely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

And cast ye the unprofitable bondman into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

All turned away. Together they became useless. There is not a man who does goodness; there is not as much as one.

This I say therefore, and solemnly declare in Lord, for you to walk no longer as also the other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

They profess to know God, but in their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and worthless for every good work.

Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

and the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of evil.