11 Bible Verses about Useless Words

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the ruin of 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 strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talk;

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that have just escaped from them who live in error.

Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.

How then do you comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?

For there is verily an annulment of the previous commandment because of the weakness and uselessness thereof.

For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, which you go over Jordan to possess.