11 Bible Verses about Useless Words

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

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?"

For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it."