Popular Bible Verses about Unproductive

Found 7 Verses

2 Peter 1:8

Bible Rank: 706

For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. NIV

For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). AMP

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. KJV

James 2:20

Bible Rank: 2,290

You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? NIV

Are you willing to be shown [proof], you foolish (unproductive, spiritually deficient) fellow, that faith apart from [good] works is inactive and ineffective and worthless? AMP

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? KJV

Titus 3:14

Bible Rank: 4,393

Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order to provide for urgent needs and not live unproductive lives. NIV

And let our own [people really] learn to apply themselves to good deeds (to honest labor and honorable employment), so that they may be able to meet necessary demands whenever the occasion may require and not be living idle and uncultivated and unfruitful lives. AMP

And let our's also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. KJV

1 Kings 9:13

Bible Rank: 6,087

"What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?" he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul, a name they have to this day. NIV

He said, What are these cities worth which you have given me, my brother? So they are called the Cabul [unproductive] Land to this day. AMP

And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day. KJV

2 Kings 2:19

Bible Rank: 14,691

The people of the city said to Elisha, "Look, our lord, this town is well situated, as you can see, but the water is bad and the land is unproductive." NIV

And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, inhabiting of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees, but the water is bad and the locality causes miscarriage and barrenness [in all animals]. AMP

And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren. KJV

1 Corinthians 14:14

Bible Rank: 17,077

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. NIV

For if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit [by the Holy Spirit within me] prays, but my mind is unproductive [it bears no fruit and helps nobody]. AMP

For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. KJV

2 Kings 2:21

Bible Rank: 17,661

"Then he went out to the spring and threw the salt into it, saying, "This is what the LORD says: 'I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive."" NIV

Then Elisha went to the spring of the waters and cast the salt in it and said, Thus says the Lord: I [not the salt] have healed these waters; there shall not be any more death, miscarriage or barrenness [and bereavement] because of it. AMP

And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. KJV