'Worthless' in the Bible

"You are not to make worthless idols, images, or pillars for yourselves, nor set up for yourselves carved images to bow down to them in the land, because I am the LORD your God.

the people complained against the LORD and Moses. "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?" they asked. "There's no food and water, and we're tired of this worthless bread."

that worthless men have come from among you to entice those who live in the towns. They may say, "Let's go and serve other gods that you haven't known.'

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

So Jephthah escaped from his brothers and lived in the territory of Tob, where worthless men gathered themselves around him and went out on raiding parties with him.

Don't consider your maid servant a worthless woman. Rather, all this time I've been speaking because I'm very anxious and distressed."

Now the sons of Eli were worthless men who did not know the LORD.

Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle the fattened animals and lambs along with all that was good. They were not willing to completely destroy them, but they did completely destroy everything that was worthless and inferior.

Now, be aware of this and consider what you should do. Calamity is being planned against our master and against his entire household. He's such a worthless person that no one can talk to him."

Please, your majesty, don't pay attention to this worthless man Nabal, for he's just like his name. Nabal is his name and folly is his constant companion. But I, your servant, didn't see your majesty's young men whom you sent.

At this point, all the wicked and worthless men of the group who had gone with David answered, "Because they didn't go with us, we won't give them any of the spoil that we recovered, except that each person may take his wife and his children and go."

"But as for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless quacks.

Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments are made of clay."

Let him not trust in a worthless speech. He leads only himself astray, for emptiness will be his reward.

Look! All of you have been watching, so why have you become so completely worthless?

Help us in our distress, for human help is worthless.

For all the gods of the nations are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

Turn my eyes away from gazing at worthless things, and revive me by your ways.

A worthless man, a wicked man, goes around with devious speech,

A worthless person concocts evil gossip his lips are like a burning fire.

People will oppress one another It will be man against man and neighbor against neighbor. The young will be disrespectful to the old, and the worthless to the honorable.

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

Now, all the forming of images means nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their own witnesses cannot see, and they know nothing. So they will be put to shame.

This is what the LORD says: "What did your ancestors find wrong with me that they left me, and pursued worthless things, and so they became worthless?

Listen! My people cry from a distant land: "Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her king no longer there?" "Why did they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign gods?"

For the practices of the people are worthless. Indeed, a tree is cut down from the forest; it's the work of the hands of a craftsman with an ax.

Everyone is stupid and senseless. They follow worthless instruction from a piece of wood!

They're worthless, a work of mockery, and when the time of punishment comes, they'll perish.

Then the LORD told me, "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I didn't send them, I didn't command them, and I didn't speak to them. They're proclaiming to you false visions, worthless predictions, and the delusions of their own minds.

Can any of the worthless gods of the nations make it rain? Can the heavens themselves bring forth showers? Aren't you the one who does this, LORD our God? So we hope in you, for you are the one who does all these things.

Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "If you repent, I'll take you back and you will stand before me. If you speak what is worthwhile, instead of what is worthless, then you will be my spokesman. People will turn to you, but you aren't to turn to them.

LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a time of difficulty, to you the nations will come, and from the ends of the earth they'll say, "Surely our ancestors inherited deception, things that are worthless, and in which there is no profit."

Yet my people have forgotten me, and they burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their journey on the ancient paths. They walk on trails, on a way that is not built up.

They're worthless, a work of mockery, and when the time of punishment comes, they'll perish.

There will no longer be worthless visions and flattering divinations in the midst of Israel's house.

Israel has been devoured; now they will live among the nations like a worthless container.

The LORD told me, "Pick up the tools of a worthless shepherd again,

"Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye. May his arm wither and his right eye be completely blind."

Their worship of me is worthless, because they teach human rules as doctrines.'

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.'"

"Men, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings with natures like yours. We are telling you the good news so you'll turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

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.

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,

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 the Messiah has not been raised, your faith is worthless and you are still imprisoned by 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.

Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord not to live any longer like the gentiles live, thinking worthless thoughts.

Also pray that we may be rescued from worthless and evil people, since not everyone holds to the faith.

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

However, if it continues to produce thorns and thistles, it is worthless and in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be burned.

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,