5 Bible Verses about Useless Things

Always call these truths to men's mind; adjuring them in the presence of God to avoid controversy. It is a useless thing, and subverts those who listen to it.

But avoid foolish questionings and genealogies and dissensions and wranglings about the law; for these are unprofitable and empty.

"All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but not all things are good for me. "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any.

"All things are lawful," you say? But not all things are expedient; "all things are lawful"; but not all build up.

Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?