7 Bible Verses about Useless Words

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.

"I tell you that for every careless word that men speak they shall give account on the day of judgment.

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

Some have failed here, and have turned aside to empty argument.

For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entangle, by their lasciviousness, in the lusts of the flesh, those who are just about to escape from the men that live in misconduct.

For there is a setting aside of a foregoing commandment, because of its weakness and unprofitableness