'Useless' in the Bible

and they gave him 70 silver coins from the temple that they had built to Baal-berith. Abimelech hired some worthless and useless men, who followed him

Don't turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or deliver because they're useless.

Then all the corrupt and useless men among the men who went with David reacted and said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them [anything] from the plunder which we recovered, {except} each [man may take] his own wife and children. They must take them along and go!"

Useless troublemakers soon gathered around him, who turned out to be too strong for Rehoboam, because he was young, timid, and unable to withstand them.

“For He recognizes and knows false and worthless men,And He sees wickedness, will He not consider it?

Should he argue with useless talkor with words that serve no good purpose?

Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

Theirs is a useless plea God won't listen; the Almighty won't pay any attention.

I hate those devoted to useless idols, but I trust Yahweh.

They will vanish like water that flows by;they will aim their useless arrows.

they reeled and staggered like drunken men,and all their skill was useless.

Give us help against the enemy, because human help is useless.

You have rejected all those who wander from Your statutes,For their deceitfulness is useless.

It is useless to get up early and to stay up late, eating the food of exhausting labor truly he gives sleep to those he loves.

Look, it is useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds,

Useless legs to the lame that's what a proverb quoted by a fool is.

Whatever has happened was foreordained, and what happens to a person was also foreknown. It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate because God is more powerful than he is.

For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns under a cooking pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This kind of folly also is useless.

Stop bringing useless offerings.Your incense is detestable to Me.New Moons and Sabbaths,and the calling of solemn assemblies—I cannot stand iniquity with a festival.

to Egypt, which gives help that is worthless and useless. Therefore I call her, "Rahab, who just sits still.'"

So will My word be which goes out of My mouth;It will not return to Me void (useless, without result),Without accomplishing what I desire,And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

The priests quit asking, “Where is the Lord?”The experts in the law no longer knew Me,and the rulers rebelled against Me.The prophets prophesied by Baaland followed useless idols.

Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?(But they were not gods!)Yet My people have exchanged their Gloryfor useless idols.

Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, 'It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!'

The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged.

But they'll say, "It's useless! We will follow our plans and each of us will pursue his own evil desires.'

Go up to Gilead and get medicinal ointment, you dear poor people of Egypt. But it will prove useless no matter how much medicine you use; there will be no healing for you.

Yet our eyes failed,Looking for help was useless;In our watching we have watchedFor a nation that could not save.

As a result, Jerusalem will become an insult, an object of taunt, an example of chastisement, and a useless waste to all the nations that surround you when I carry out my sentence against you in my anger, my burning rage, and my burning rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken it.

If it was useless before it was burned, now that it's been burned and charred through, it's even more useless!

Israel is [as if] swallowed up [by enemies];They are now among the nationsLike a vessel [of cheap, coarse pottery] that is useless.

“Those who regard and follow worthless idolsTurn away from their [living source of] mercy and lovingkindness.

“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

You have said: “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?

Throw this useless servant into the darkness outside! In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'"

and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?

It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

You said by the Holy Spirit through the voice of our ancestor, your servant David, "Why do the unbelievers rage, and the people devise useless plots?

For when they had come to know God, they did not give Him glory as God nor render Him thanks, but they became absorbed in useless discussions, and their senseless minds were darkened.

for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?

All have turned away;all alike have become useless.There is no one who does what is good,not even one.

Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.

For if those who were given the Law are the heirs, then faith is useless and the promise is worthless,

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel -- and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.

For it is written and forever remains written,“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise [the philosophy of the philosophers],And the cleverness of the clever [who do not know Me] I will nullify.”

and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --

And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,

and again, “The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are useless.”

the meats are for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

And if I have the gift of prophecy [and speak a new message from God to the people], and understand all mysteries, and [possess] all knowledge; and if I have all [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love [reaching out to others], I am nothing.

The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

and when that which is perfect may come, then that which is in part shall become useless.

When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.

then -- the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power --

and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,

for if that which is being made useless is through glory, much more that which is remaining is in glory.

and are not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless,

but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn -- which in Christ is being made useless --

For you know, brothers and sisters, that our coming to you has not been ineffective (fruitless, in vain),

So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.

nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God's redemptive plan that operates by faith.

Train yourself in godliness. Exercise for the body is not useless, but godliness is useful in every respect, possessing, as it does, the promise of Life now and of the Life which is soon coming.

But those who [are not financially ethical and] crave to get rich [with a compulsive, greedy longing for wealth] fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction [leading to personal misery].

Remind them of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers.

But avoid all irreverent babble and godless chatter [with its profane, empty words], for it will lead to further ungodliness,

They profess to know God; but in their actions they disown Him, and are detestable and disobedient men, and for any good work are utterly useless.

But avoid foolish controversies, arguments about genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the Law. These things are useless and worthless.

And let our people too learn to set a good example in following honest occupations for the supply of their necessities, so that they may not live useless lives.

Once he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me.

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.

Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?

For you know that you were not redeemed from your useless [spiritually unproductive] way of life inherited [by tradition] from your forefathers with perishable things like silver and gold,

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.