Vanity

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Psalms 31:6 OT

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

• Isaiah 44:9 OT

  Everyone who makes a carved 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 OT

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

• Jeremiah 10:8 OT

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

• Jeremiah 18:15 OT

  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,

• Proverbs 13:11 OT

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

• Psalms 119:113 OT

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

• Psalms 119:37 OT

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

• Proverbs 30:8 OT

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

• Psalms 24:4 OT

  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 OT

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

• Job 11:11 OT

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

• Job 11:12 OT

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

• Psalms 4:2 OT

  You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

• Psalms 2:1 OT

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

• Acts 4:25 NT

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

• Romans 1:21 NT

  Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

• Psalms 36:4 OT

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

• Psalms 10:7 OT

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

• Psalms 12:2 OT

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

• Psalms 41:6 OT

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

• Job 21:15 OT

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

• Malachi 3:14 OT

  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?

• 2 Peter 2:18 NT

  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;