11 Bible Verses about Useless Words

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

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

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity; He multiplieth words without knowledge.

How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?

For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness

For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.