12 Bible Verses about Useless Things

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.