10 Bible Verses about Fruitless Learning

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!

always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,

Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul.

Thus said Jehovah: Unto the way of the nations accustom not yourselves, And by the signs of the heavens be not affrighted, For the nations are affrighted by them.

And further, from these, my son, be warned; the making of many books hath no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

And He hath judged between many peoples, And given a decision to mighty nations afar off, They have beaten their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation lifteth not up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn war any more.

having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

and they sing, as it were, a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousands, who have been bought from the earth;