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Worthless (103 Occurrences)Matthew 7:17
So every good tree produces good fruits, but the worthless tree produces bad fruits.
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Matthew 7:18
A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a worthless tree produce good fruits.
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Matthew 13:48
When full, they haul it up on the beach, and sit down and collect the good fish in baskets, while the worthless they throw away.
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Matthew 25:30
But as for this worthless servant, put him out into the darkness outside: *there* will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.'
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Luke 19:22
He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;
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Acts 4:11
He is'the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.'
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Acts 14:15
"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
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Acts 19:27
and not only is this department in danger for us of coming into disregard, but also, that of the great goddess Artemis the temple is to be reckoned for nothing, and also her greatness is about to be brought down, whom all Asia and the world doth worship.'
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Romans 1:28
And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.
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Romans 3:3
For what if some Jews have proved unfaithful? Shall their faithlessness render God's faithfulness worthless?
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Romans 4:14
For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;
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Romans 9:11
the children indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),
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1 Corinthians 3:20
And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."
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1 Corinthians 15:17
If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
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2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all of us appear before Christ's judgement-seat in our true characters, in order that each may then receive an award for his actions in this life, in accordance with what he has done, whether it be good or whether it be worthless.
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Galatians 4:9
Now, however, having come to know God--or rather to be known by Him--how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved?
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2 Timothy 3:8
Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards the faith.
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Titus 1:16
They profess to know God, but in works deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.
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Titus 3:9
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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Hebrews 6:8
But if it only yields a mass of thorns and briers, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be destroyed by fire.
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James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless. Peter's First Letter
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James 2:20
But, idle boaster, are you willing to be taught how it is that faith apart from obedience is worthless? Take the case of Abraham our forefather.
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1 Peter 2:4
Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour.
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1 Peter 2:7
To you therefore who believe is the preciousness; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders cast away as worthless, this is become head of the corner,
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Genesis 41:27
The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
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Numbers 21:5
The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."
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Deuteronomy 13:13
Men, sons of worthlessness, have gone out of thy midst, and they force away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known --
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Deuteronomy 32:21
They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,
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Judges 9:4
And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Ba'al-be'rith with which Abim'elech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.
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Judges 11:3
Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and dwelt in the land of Tob; and worthless fellows collected round Jephthah, and went raiding with him.
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Judges 19:22
They are making their heart glad, and lo, men of the city, men -- sons of worthlessness -- have gone round about the house, beating on the door, and they speak unto the old man, the master of the house, saying, 'Bring out the man who hath come unto thine house, and we know him.'
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Judges 20:13
And now, give up the men -- sons of worthlessness -- which 'are' in Gibeah, and we put them to death, and we put away evil from Israel.' And 'the sons of' Benjamin have not been willing to hearken to the voice of their brethren, the sons of Israel;
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1 Samuel 1:16
put not thy handmaid before a daughter of worthlessness, for from the abundance of my meditation, and of my provocation, I have spoken hitherto.'
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1 Samuel 2:12
and the sons of Eli 'are' sons of worthlessness, they have not known Jehovah.
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1 Samuel 10:27
But certain worthless fellows said, "How shall this man save us?" They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
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1 Samuel 15:9
and Saul hath pity -- also the people -- on Agag, and on the best of the flock, and of the herd, and of the seconds, and on the lambs, and on all that 'is' good, and have not been willing to devote them; and all the work, despised and wasted -- it they devoted.
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1 Samuel 25:17
Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him."
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1 Samuel 25:25
Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your handmaid, didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
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1 Samuel 30:22
And every bad and worthless man, of the men who have gone with David, answereth, yea, they say, 'Because that they have not gone with us we do not give to them of the spoil which we have delivered, except each his wife and his children, and they lead away and go.
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2 Samuel 16:7
And thus said Shimei in his reviling, 'Go out, go out, O man of blood, and man of worthlessness!
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2 Samuel 22:5
When the breakers of death compassed me, The streams of the worthless terrify me,
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2 Samuel 23:6
As to the worthless -- As a thorn driven away 'are' all of them, For -- not by hand are they taken;
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1 Kings 16:13
for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
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1 Kings 16:26
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
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1 Kings 21:10
and cause two men -- sons of worthlessness -- to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.'
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1 Kings 21:13
and two men -- sons of worthlessness -- come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, 'Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth;
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2 Kings 17:15
They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.
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2 Chronicles 13:7
There were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
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Job 11:11
For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it.
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Job 13:4
But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
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Job 15:31
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.
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Job 24:25
And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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Job 34:18
Who hath said to a king -- 'Worthless,' Unto princes -- 'Wicked?'
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Psalms 4:2
You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
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Psalms 18:4
Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
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Psalms 31:6
I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.
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Psalms 60:11
Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.
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Psalms 97:7
Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.
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Psalms 101:3
I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.
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Psalms 108:12
Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.
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Psalms 119:37
Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
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Proverbs 6:12
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
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Proverbs 11:4
Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
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Proverbs 12:11
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless is void of understanding.
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Proverbs 16:27
A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.
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Proverbs 19:28
A worthless witness mocketh at justice; And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.
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Proverbs 28:19
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless shall have poverty enough.
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Isaiah 1:13
Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.
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Isaiah 5:2
And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.
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Isaiah 5:4
Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?
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Isaiah 10:10
As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, 'Greater' than Jerusalem and than Samaria,
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Isaiah 10:11
Do I not -- as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things?
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Isaiah 30:7
For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.
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Isaiah 40:17
All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.
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Isaiah 41:24
Behold, ye are nothing, and your work a thing of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.
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Isaiah 41:29
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
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Isaiah 44:9
Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.
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Jeremiah 2:5
These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?
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Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.
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Jeremiah 2:11
Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.
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Jeremiah 7:8
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
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Jeremiah 8:19
The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?
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Jeremiah 10:3
For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, For a tree from a forest hath one cut, Work of the hands of an artificer, with an axe,
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Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
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Jeremiah 10:15
Vanity 'are' they, work of erring ones, In the time of their inspection they perish.
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Jeremiah 11:16
Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.
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Jeremiah 13:7
Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hid it; and behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
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Jeremiah 13:10
This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, Who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, And go after other gods to serve them, And to bow themselves to them, Yea it is -- as this girdle, that is not profitable for anything.
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Jeremiah 14:14
Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.
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Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore thus says Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them.
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Jeremiah 16:19
Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit.
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Jeremiah 18:15
For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
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Jeremiah 51:18
Vanity 'are' they -- work of errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.
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Lamentations 2:14
The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.
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Hosea 8:8
Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
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Hosea 10:4
They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.
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Hosea 12:11
If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
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Jonah 2:8
The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.
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Nahum 1:11
From thee hath come forth a deviser of evil Against Jehovah -- a worthless counsellor.
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Nahum 1:14
And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image; I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
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