12 Bible Verses about Useless Things

Turn away my eyes from seeing vanity; in Your way give me life.

Put them in memory of these things, charging them before the Lord not to dispute about words to no profit, to the subverting of the hearers.

But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the Law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful to me, but not all things build up.

O sons of men, how long will you turn My glory into shame? Will you love vanity and seek after a lie? Selah.

O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.

And do not turn aside to go after vanities, which cannot profit nor deliver. For they are vain.

you who rejoice in nothing, who say, Have we not taken horns to ourselves by our own strength?

But now, knowing God, but rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements to which you again desire to slave anew?

Let not he being deceived trust in vanity; for vanity shall be his reward.

But do not seek Bethel nor enter into Gilgal, and do not pass to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.