'Useless' in the Bible

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.

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

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.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.

who was formerly useless to you, but is now useful to you and 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,

But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?