12 Bible Verses about Useless Things

Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and revive thou me in thy way.

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they contend 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 to 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 falsehood? Selah.

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

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

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

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

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

But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to naught.