Vanity
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Vanity’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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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.
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And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”
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I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.
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Psalms 39:6 OT
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
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Psalms 127:2 OT
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards. I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit. I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were…
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Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
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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.
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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…
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He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
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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.
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Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
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“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
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from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,
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desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
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Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
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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.
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But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,
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Titus 3:9 NT
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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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,