'Worthwhile' in the Bible

But Barzillai said to the king, “How much longer have I to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

If your hand causes you to stumble and sin, cut it off [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]! It is better for you to enter life crippled, than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,

[where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out.]

and if it is fitting for me to go too, they will accompany me.