Vanity

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 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…

• 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?