22 Bible Verses about Useless People

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Ecclesiastes 6:4

For he comes in futility and he goes in darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.

Job 11:11

Surely He knows which people are worthless.
If He sees iniquity, will He not take note of it?

Job 13:4

But you coat the truth with lies;
you are all worthless doctors.

Job 27:12

All of you have seen this for yourselves,
why do you keep up this empty talk?

Job 34:18

who says to a king, “Worthless man!”
and to nobles, “Wicked men!”?

Psalm 119:119

You remove all the wicked on earth
as if they were dross;
therefore, I love Your decrees.

Jeremiah 13:10

These evil people, who refuse to listen to Me, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who have followed other gods to serve and worship—they will be like this underwear, of no use at all.

Isaiah 44:9

All who make idols are nothing,
and what they treasure does not profit.
Their witnesses do not see or know anything,
so they will be put to shame.

1 Corinthians 4:13

when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the world’s garbage, like the dirt everyone scrapes off their sandals.

Lamentations 3:45

You have made us disgusting filth
among the peoples.

Ezekiel 22:18-19

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are the dross of silver. Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Because all of you have become dross, I am about to gather you into Jerusalem.

Philemon 1:11

Once he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me.

Ezekiel 22:18

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

Zechariah 11:17

Woe to the worthless shepherd
who deserts the flock!
May a sword strike his arm
and his right eye!
May his arm wither away
and his right eye go completely blind!”

Romans 3:12

All have turned away;
all alike have become useless.
There is no one who does what is good,
not even one.

Ephesians 4:17

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.

Jeremiah 2:5

This is what the Lord says:

What fault did your fathers find in Me
that they went so far from Me,
followed worthless idols,
and became worthless themselves?

Psalm 78:57

They treacherously turned away like their fathers;
they became warped like a faulty bow.

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