'Worthless' in the Bible
So every good tree produces good fruits, but the worthless tree produces bad fruits.
A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a worthless tree produce good fruits.
I tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak.
and when it was full, they dragged it ashore, sat down, and gathered the good fish into containers, but threw out the worthless ones.
Throw out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Their worship of me is worthless, because they teach human rules as doctrines.'
For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.
That's the way it is with you. When you have done everything you were ordered to do, say, "We are worthless servants. We have done only what we ought to have done.'"
He *said to him, ‘By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?
Then the Pharisees told Him, “You are testifying on Your own behalf; Your testimony is not valid.”
Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, 'He is our God.'
He is 'the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.'
“Men! Why are you doing these things? We are men also, with the same nature as you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.
But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason's house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.
Not only is there danger that this trade of ours fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be regarded as worthless and that she whom all of Asia and the world worship will even be dethroned from her magnificence.”
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.
For what if some Jews have proved unfaithful? Shall their faithlessness render God's faithfulness worthless?
All have turned away. They have become completely worthless. No one shows kindness, not even one person!
For if those who were given the Law are the heirs, then faith is useless and the promise is worthless,
the children indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),
and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless."
and by which you are also being saved if you hold firmly to the message I proclaimed to you unless, of course, your faith was worthless.
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of the Messiah, so that each of us may receive what he deserves for what he has done in his body, whether good or worthless.
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?
Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord not to live any longer like the gentiles live, thinking worthless thoughts.
Do not let unwholesome [foul, profane, worthless, vulgar] words ever come out of your mouth, but only such speech as is good for building up others, according to the need and the occasion, so that it will be a blessing to those who hear [you speak].
Also pray that we may be rescued from worthless and evil people, since not everyone holds to the faith.
But reject those {worthless myths told by elderly women}, and train yourself for godliness.
Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, worthless in regard to the faith.
They profess to know God, but in works deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.
But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and will be burned at the end.
If anyone thinks that he is religious and does not bridle his tongue, but instead deceives himself, his religion is worthless.
Do you want proof, you foolish person, that faith without actions is worthless?
For you know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you have been ransomed from the worthless way of life handed down to you by your ancestors,
To whom coming, a living stone, cast away indeed as worthless by men, but with God chosen, precious,
To you therefore who believe is the preciousness; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders cast away as worthless, this is become head of the corner,