11 Bible Verses about Useless Words

“Should he argue with useless talk,
Or with words which are not profitable?

Remind them of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers.

But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment.

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion,

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

So Job opens his mouth emptily;
He multiplies words without knowledge.”

“How then will you vainly comfort me,
For your answers remain full of falsehood?”

For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life. And by this word you will prolong your days in the land, which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”