'Ineffective' in the Bible
Know then [without any doubt] that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the Lord has done what He said through His servant Elijah.”
They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.
Furthermore, men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags himself along, and the caperberry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home while mourners go about in the street.
When the Moabites plead with all their might at their high places, and enter their temples to pray, their prayers will be ineffective!
This is why the law is ineffectiveand justice never emerges.For the wicked restrict the righteous;therefore, justice comes out perverted.
What then? If some did not believe or were unfaithful [to God], their lack of belief will not nullify and make invalid the faithfulness of God and His word, will it?
We know that our old self [our human nature without the Holy Spirit] was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin.
But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.
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.
Indeed, because it was weak and ineffective, the former commandment has been annulled,
But are you willing to recognize, you foolish [spiritually shallow] person, that faith without [good] works is useless?
For if you possess these qualities, and if they continue to increase among you, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.
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- Ineffective (14 instances)
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