12 Bible Verses about Useless Things

Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers.

But have nothing to do with foolish questionings, and lists of generations, and fights and arguments about the law; for they are of no profit and foolish.

I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.

O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)

O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.

And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.

You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours?

But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.