12 Bible Verses about Useless Things

Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

These things remind them of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;

All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

Sons of men! till when is my glory for shame? Ye love a vain thing, ye seek a lie. Selah.

O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they are vain,

O ye who are rejoicing at nothing, Who are saying, 'Have we not by our strength taken to ourselves horns?'

and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

And seek not Beth-El, and Gilgal enter not, And Beer-Sheba pass not through, For Gilgal doth utterly remove, And Beth-El doth become vanity.