VANITY

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• Deuteronomy 4:35

  It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

• 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 followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

• Job 7:16

  I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

• Job 11:11

  For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

• Job 11:12

  An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

• Job 21:15

  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

• Psalms 2:1

  Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

• 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.

• Psalms 10:7

  His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

• Psalms 12:2

  Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

• Psalms 24:4

  He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

• Psalms 26:4

  I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

• Psalms 31:6

  I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.

• Psalms 36:4

  He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

• Psalms 39:5

  Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

• Psalms 39:6

  “Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

• Psalms 39:11

  When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

• Psalms 41:6

  If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

• Psalms 60:11

  Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.

• Psalms 62:9

  Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

• Psalms 78:33

  Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

• Psalms 94:11

  Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

• Psalms 119:37

  Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

• Psalms 119:113

  I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

• Psalms 127:2

  It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

• Psalms 144:4

  Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

• Proverbs 10:2

  Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

• Proverbs 12:11

  He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

• Proverbs 13:11

  Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

• Proverbs 21:6

  Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

• Proverbs 22:8

  He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

• Proverbs 28:19

  One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

• Proverbs 30:8

  Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

• Proverbs 31:30

  Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

• Ecclesiastes 1:2

  “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

• Ecclesiastes 2:1

  I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”; and behold, this also was vanity.

• Ecclesiastes 2:3

  I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

• Ecclesiastes 2:4

  I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

• Ecclesiastes 2:5

  I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

• Ecclesiastes 2:6

  I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

• Ecclesiastes 2:7

  I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem;

• Ecclesiastes 2:8

  I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men — musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

• Ecclesiastes 2:9

  So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

• Ecclesiastes 2:10

  Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

• Ecclesiastes 2:11

  Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

• Ecclesiastes 2:15

  Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

• Ecclesiastes 2:21

  For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

• Ecclesiastes 2:26

  For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

• Ecclesiastes 4:4

  Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

• Ecclesiastes 4:8

  There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

• Ecclesiastes 5:10

  He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

• Ecclesiastes 6:2

  a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

• Ecclesiastes 6:12

  For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

• Ecclesiastes 11:10

  Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

• Isaiah 1:13

  Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t bear with evil assemblies.

• Isaiah 44:9

  Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

• Isaiah 44:10

  Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

• Isaiah 57:12

  I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

• Isaiah 57:13

  When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you; but the wind will take them. a breath will carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”

• Jeremiah 2:5

  Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

• Jeremiah 7:8

  Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.

• Jeremiah 10:8

  But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.

• Jeremiah 12:13

  They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing. You shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.”

• 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, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

• Jeremiah 18:15

  For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;

• Jeremiah 23:32

  Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them, nor command them; neither do they profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.

• Lamentations 4:17

  Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

• Malachi 3:14

  You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

• Matthew 6:7

  In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

• Acts 4:25

  who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

• Romans 1:21

  Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

• Romans 8:20

  For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

• 1 Corinthians 3:20

  And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

• 1 Corinthians 13:3

  If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

• Ephesians 4:17

  This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

• 1 Timothy 1:6

  from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

• 1 Timothy 1:7

  desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

• 1 Timothy 4:8

  For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

• 1 Timothy 6:20

  Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge;

• 2 Timothy 2:14

  Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

• 2 Timothy 2:16

  But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

• Titus 3:9

  but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

• Hebrews 13:9

  Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

• 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.

• James 2:14

  What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

• 1 Peter 1:18

  knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

• 2 Peter 2:18

  For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;