'Ineffective' in the Bible

They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.

When the Moabites plead with all their might at their high places, and enter their temples to pray, their prayers will be ineffective!

But if the ministry that produced death -- carved in letters on stone tablets -- came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective),

For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory!

and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective.

For if these things are really yours and are continually increasing, they will keep you from becoming ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately.