7 Bible Verses about Useless Words

Remind people of all this; urge them solemnly, as in the sight of God, to avoid controversy, a useless thing and the ruin of those who listen to it.

I tell you that for every careless thing that men say, they must answer on the 'Day of Judgment.'

But have nothing to do with foolish discussions, or with genealogies, or with controversy, or disputes about the Law. They are useless and futile.

And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects.

With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.

On the one hand, we have the abolition of a previous regulation as being both inefficient and useless