'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.

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.

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

They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, as all their wisdom became useless.

Give us help against the enemy, because human help 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.

Stop bringing useless offerings! Incense is detestable to me, as are your New Moons, Sabbaths, and calling of convocations. I cannot stand iniquity within a solemn assembly.

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

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

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!

"Oh, that one of you would shut the Temple doors and not light useless fires on the altar! I'm not pleased with you," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and I'll accept no offerings from you.

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

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

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

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