New Revised Standard Version
Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful both to you and to me.

Contemporary English Version
Before this, he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me.

New American Bible
who was once useless to you but is now useful to [both] you and me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee but now is profitable both to me and thee:

Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee but now is profitable both to me and thee:

unprofitable.

Job 30:1,2 But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock: . . .

Matthew 25:30 And the unprofitable servant, cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 17:10 I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.

Romans 3:12 All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.

1 Peter 2:10 Who in times past were not a people: but are now the people of God. Who had not obtained mercy: but now have obtained mercy.

profitable.

Luke 15:24,32 Because this my son was dead and is come to life again, was lost and is found. And they began to be merry. . . .

2 Timothy 4:11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.