Biblical Concept: Useless
Findings
“useless talk”
Rejected: wander,
statutes, deceitfulness, useless.
Spiritual useless.
Useless alliance.
Bad salt useless.
Nature to sin and useless relationship.
Worldly wise but spiritually useless.
Wrangle, words, useless, ruin.
“formerly was useless”
“faith without works is useless”
Not spiritually useless.
Spiritual warning to Israel: “you shall sow your seed uselessly, for your
enemies shall eat it up.”
Spiritual warning to Israel: “that you might not uselessly kindle fire on My altar!”
Former commandment: weakness, uselessness.
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(Parentheses are mine.)
Useless
NAS Job 15:3 "Should he argue with useless talk, Or with
words which are not profitable? (“useless talk”)
NAS Psalm 119:118 Thou hast rejected all those
who wander from Thy statutes, For their deceitfulness is useless. (Rejected:
wander, statutes, deceitfulness, useless.) (Spiritual useless.)
NAS Proverbs
1:17 Indeed, it is useless to
spread the net In the eyes of any bird;
NAS Lamentations
4:17 Yet our eyes failed; Looking for help was useless. In our
watching we have watched For a nation that could not save. (Spiritual useless.)
(Useless alliance.)
NAS Luke
14:35 "It is useless either
for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear,
let him hear." (Bad salt useless.)
NAS Romans
3:12 All have turned aside,
together they have become useless; There is none who does good, There is not
even one." (Nature to sin and useless relationship.)
NAS 1
Corinthians 3:20 and again,
"The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are useless."
(Worldly wise but spiritually useless.) (1 Corinthians 3:18-20 18 Let no man deceive himself. If
any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become foolish that
he may become wise. 19 For
the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, "He is the one who catches the wise in
their craftiness"; 20
and again, "The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are
useless.")
NAS 2 Timothy
2:14 Remind them of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to wrangle about words, which is
useless, and leads to the ruin of the
hearers. (Wrangle, words, useless, ruin.)
NAS Philemon
1:11 who formerly was useless to
you, but now is useful both to you and to me. (“formerly was useless”)
NAS James
2:20 But are you willing to
recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? (“faith
without works is useless”)
NAS 2 Peter
1:8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing,
they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ. (See 2 Peter 1:3-11.) (Not spiritually useless.)
Uselessly
NAS Leviticus
26:16 I, in turn, will do this to
you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that shall
waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you shall sow your
seed uselessly, for your enemies shall eat it up. (Spiritual warning to Israel:
“you shall sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies shall eat it up.”)
20 'And your strength shall be
spent uselessly, for your land shall not yield its produce and the trees of the
land shall not yield their fruit. (Spiritual warning to Israel: your strength
shall be spent uselessly.)
NAS Malachi
1:10 "Oh that there were one.
you who would shut the gates, that you might not uselessly kindle fire on My altar! I am not pleased with
you," says the LORD of hosts, "nor will I accept an offering from
you. (Spiritual warning to Israel: “that you might not uselessly kindle fire on My altar!”)
Uselessness
NAS Hebrews
7:18 For, on the one hand, there
is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and
uselessness (Former commandment: weakness, uselessness.)