22 Bible Verses about Useless People

Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?

For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

For he knows vain men: he sees wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.

Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then are you thus altogether vain?

Is it fit to say to a king, You are wicked? and to princes, You are ungodly?

You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies.

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

They that make a graven image are all of them nothing; and their precious things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the trash of all things unto this day.

You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

Son of man, the house of Israel has to me become dross: all they are bronze, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Who in time past was to you unprofitable, but now profitable to you and to me:

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

Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaves the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be wholly dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

And cast the unprofitable servant into 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 none that does good, no, not one.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

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

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

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;