12 Bible Verses about Useless Things

Cause mine eyes to pass from seeing vanity; make me live in thy way.

Put these things in mind, calling to witness before the Lord not to wrangle for nothing useful, to the subversion of them hearing.

And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any.

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all things are lawful to me, but all build not the house.

Sons of man, how long mine honor for shame? Ye will love emptiness, ye. will seek falsehood. Silence.

O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in days of straits, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers inherited falsehood, vanity, and no receiving profit in them.

And ye shall not turn aside: for after vanities which will not profit, and they will not deliver, for they are vanities.

Rejoicing to no word, saying, Did we not take horns by our strength?

And now, having known God, and rather known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and poor elements, to which again ye wish anew to be in a servile condition

He being deceived shall not trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his compensation.

And ye shall not seek the house of God, and to Gilgal ye shall not go: and to the well of the oath ye shall not pass over: for Gilgal being taken captive shall be carried away captive, and the house of God shall be for nothing.