7 Bible Verses about Useless Words

Bring all this to men's remembrances, solemnly charging them in the presence of God not to waste time in wrangling about mere words, a course which is altogether unprofitable and tends only to the ruin of the hearers.

But I tell you that for every careless word that men shall speak they will be held accountable on the day of Judgement.

But hold yourself aloof from foolish controversies and pedigrees and discussions and wrangling about the Law, for they are useless and vain.

From these some have drifted away, and have wandered into empty words.

For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.

On the one hand we have here the abrogation of an earlier code because it was weak and ineffective--