Vanity

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Proverbs 10:2 OT

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

• Ecclesiastes 2:26 OT

  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 4:8 OT

  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…

• Ecclesiastes 5:10 OT

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

• Ecclesiastes 6:2 OT

  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.

• Proverbs 21:6 OT

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

• Ecclesiastes 1:2 OT

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

• 1 Timothy 1:6 NT

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

• 1 Timothy 1:7 NT

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

• 1 Timothy 6:20 NT

  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 NT

  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 NT

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

• Titus 3:9 NT

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

• 1 Peter 1:18 NT

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

• James 1:26 NT

  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.

• Isaiah 1:13 OT

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

• Matthew 6:7 NT

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

• Jeremiah 7:8 OT

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

• Jeremiah 23:32 OT

  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 or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says…

• 1 Timothy 4:8 NT

  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.

• Hebrews 13:9 NT

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 13:3 NT

  If I give away 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.

• James 2:14 NT

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

• 2 Kings 17:15 OT

  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…