11 Bible Verses about Useless Words

Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?

Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion of the hearers.

But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day:

But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and vain.

which things some having missed, have turned aside to vain discourse,

For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,

For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.

How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.

For there is a setting aside of the commandment going before for its weakness and unprofitableness,

For it is no vain word for you, but it is your life, and through this word ye shall prolong your days on the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it.