11 Bible Verses about Useless Words

Should he dispute with useless words and with reasons that are not profitable?

Counsel these things, charging them before the Lord. Strive not in words that profit nothing, but rather subvert the hearers.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and debates concerning the law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

from which some, having swerved, have turned aside unto vanity of words,

For speaking arrogant words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from those who converse in error,

therefore, Job opened his mouth in vain and multiplied words without knowledge.

How then do ye comfort me in vain, given that your answers remain as falsehood?

For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness of it;

For it is not a vain thing for you because it is your life; and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, which ye shall pass the Jordan to inherit.