22 Bible Verses about Useless People

Remember how short my time is; why hast thou made all men subject to vanity?

For he came in vain and departs unto darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

For he knows the vain men; and he sees the iniquity; will he not then understand it?

That ye are certainly forgers of lies; ye are all physicians of no value.

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye so completely vain?

Is it fit to say to the king, Thou art of Belial and to the princes, Ye are ungodly?

Thou dost cause all the wicked of the earth to come undone like dross; therefore I have loved thy testimonies.

This evil people that refuses to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart and went after other gods to serve them and to worship them shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

Those that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and that which is most precious to them is useful for nothing; and they are their own witnesses that they do not see, nor understand; therefore, they shall be ashamed.

being blasphemed, we intreat; we are made as the filth of this world and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

Samech Thou hast made us as the offscouring and abomination in the midst of the peoples.

Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross; they are all brass and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace; they are become the dross of silver. Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

who in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now is profitable to thee and to me,

Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross; they are all brass and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace; they are become the dross of silver.

Woe to the useless pastor that leaves the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm and upon his right eye; his arm shall be completely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

And cast ye the unprofitable slave into the outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, no, not one.

This I say, therefore, and require in the Lord that from now on ye not walk as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their own senses,

They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him, being abominable and rebellious and reprobate unto every good work.

thus hath the LORD said, What iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain?

But turned back and rebelled like their fathers; they became like a deceitful bow.

the field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked;